Principles Quotes

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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. — Rutherford B. Hayes
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not… — F L Lucas
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find… — Philip Greenspun
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field. — Thomas Traherne
Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We have always found that, if the principles were right, the area over which they were affected did not matter. Size is only a matter… — Henry Ford
Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong. — Lafcadio Hearn
Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles. — John Powell
The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. — Allan Kardec
There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental… — Stephen Covey
There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes. — Seneca the Younger
It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice. — Leo Tolstoy
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever. — William George Jordan
If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling. — Stephen Covey
A spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of… — Gregg Easterbrook
I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work,… — Christiaan Huygens
Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few… — Steven Weinberg

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