Principle Quotes

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Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality. — Pema Chodron
The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little… — Wallace D. Wattles
Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not… — Mencius
Note that charity is given only to those who seek it, only to those who earnestly pray for it, only to those who are disciples… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was… — Mark Twain
You don't have to explain yourself. Let your weakness be yours. Let your strength be everybody's. You understand the principle? — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a… — Arthur W. Pink
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart,… — George Whitefield
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his… — Robert Aris Willmott
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but… — Karl Popper
It is impossible to devise an experiment without a preconceived idea; devising an experiment, we said, is putting a question; we never conceive a question… — Claude Bernard
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in… — Gustave Eiffel
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is… — Washington Irving
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want. What's… — Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Honesty is a principle, and we have our moral agency to determine how we will apply this principle. We have the agency to make choices,… — James E. Faust
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. — Thomas Jefferson
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link… — Albert Einstein
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist… — Edmund Burke
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that… — Dante Alighieri
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this… — Frederic Bastiat
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. — William Blackstone
Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty… — John Dewey
No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they… — Wendell Phillips
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis

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