Best Principal Quotes
458 Principal quotes by 386 unique authors
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The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
— Marlon Brando
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Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and…
— Pope John Paul II
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Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, "In Case of Fire, Throw This in…
— Erma Bombeck
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One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among…
— Nathanael Emmons
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Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites,…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone thinks that the principal thing to the tree is the fruit, but in point of fact the principal thing to it is the seed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We may affirm of Mr. Buffon, that which has been said of the chemists of old; though he may have failed in attaining his principal…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done-men…
— Jean Piaget
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The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with…
— Galileo Galilei
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The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think…
— Dalai Lama
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My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my…
— Loni Anderson
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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
— H. L. Mencken
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Today, as always, the people, no less than the courts, must remain vigilant to preserve the principals of our Bill of Rights, lest in our…
— Earl Warren
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The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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And I'm not a student of religion, but I don't find anything in what the principal teachings of Islam that put us in contradiction at…
— George H. W. Bush
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The principal result of my investigation is that a uniform developmental principle controls the individual elementary units of all organisms, analogous to the finding that…
— Theodor Schwann
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The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
— Marvin Minsky
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The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a…
— Unknown Author
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in…
— Joseph Addison
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential…
— Arthur Schuster
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The dollar is currently the principal reserve currency in the world.
— Robert C. Solomon
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Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.
— William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
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