Maxims Quotes

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we… — Seneca the Younger
The Grecianâ€™s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a… — Charles Caleb Colton
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to… — Arthur Helps
The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims. — Benjamin Disraeli
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
... that maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my… — Andre Gide
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods. — William James
Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared â€” this must some day become the highest maxim… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I would fain coin wisdom,â€”mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not… — Confucius
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything… — Lord Chesterfield
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal
Nature has not placed us in an inferior rank to men, no more than the females of other animals, where we see no distinction of… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore… — William Jennings Bryan
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done. — Baron de Montesquieu
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon… — Edward Dahlberg
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific… — Michael Polanyi

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