Principle Quotes

1947 Principle quotes by 1268 unique authors

Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more… — Joshua Reynolds
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception. — John Foster Dulles
The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. — Robert Schumann
Poetry, and the principle of Self, of which money is the visible incarnation, are the God and the Mammon of the world. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity. — Paul Davies
The first thing a principle does is kill somebody — Dorothy L. Sayers
One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of… — James F. Cooper
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have… — Thomas Frank
The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the… — Barbara Hepworth
Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often… — Frank Luntz
One way of getting along with people is the ability to give in. Strength of character means the ability to give in to others from… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to… — Chris Matthews
What is good for my country is good for my party, Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us. — John McCain
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to… — Steven Pressfield
The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards. — Rupert Sheldrake
As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose… — Edward Kennedy
A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas. — Trofim Lysenko
The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth… — Louis Mackey
Evolution is an organizing principle and when we call it a theory, we mean it's a theory, we don't mean that it's a belief that… — Alan I. Leshner
The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a… — Mu Xin
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich… — Max Planck
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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