Principles Quotes

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Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of… — Bede Griffiths
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws. — Garet Garrett
The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing… — John Garamendi
My father taught me that you have to stand by your principles. — Mohamed ElBaradei
We fully realize today that victory in war requires a mighty united effort. Certainly, victory in peace calls for, and must receive, an equal effort.… — Harry S. Truman
It is the business of economists, not to tell us what to do, but show why what we are doing anyway is in accord with… — Joan Robinson
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival… — Oscar Wilde
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to the cases which… — John Herschel
For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles. — Charles Babbage
The influence of electricity in producing decompositions, although of inestimable value as an instrument of discovery in chemical inquiries, can hardly be said to have… — Charles Babbage
Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not forbidden is compulsory."… — Michio Kaku
And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and… — David Brewster
Our reasonings are grounded upon two great principles, that of contradiction, in virtue of which we judge false that which involves a contradiction, and true… — Gottfried Leibniz
Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to… — W. W. Rouse Ball
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in… — Karl Popper
To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared… — Anthony Giddens
It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline… — Antonio Gramsci
From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn… — Russell Peters
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary… — Thomas Aquinas
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking. — Albert Einstein

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