Principle Quotes

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Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a… — John Owen
The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which the virtues most… — Claude Bernard
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle of relativity... the rigid electron… — Hermann Minkowski
But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during… — Hippocrates
What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading… — Abraham Lincoln
Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others,… — Patrick Henry
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange… — Ayn Rand
The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up… — Sun Tzu
The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth… — Mary Baker Eddy
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin,… — Barack Obama
First of all, in principle, I'm against physician-assisted suicide, and secondly, I believe it is the prerogative of the federal government to control drug rules.… — George W. Bush
The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of… — Ronald Takaki
In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social… — Mikhail Gorbachev
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare… — Thomas Jefferson
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former… — Thomas Jefferson
This principle of opposites is at the very root of Creation, which is divided between the rule of the King and the Queen; Night and… — Rabindranath Tagore
Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we… — Richard Dawkins
I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to… — Rajneesh
Fasting is the first principle of medicine. — Unknown Author
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still… — Alexander Hamilton
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers… — John Quincy Adams
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with… — William Hazlitt
The Americans, on the contrary, are fond of explaining almost all the actions of their lives by the principle of interest rightly understood; they show… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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