Principles Quotes

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Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a… — Frederick The Great
A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances. — George S. Patton
I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2. — Yao Ming
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
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
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these… — Vernon Howard
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
There should be a balance between material and spiritual progress, a balance achieved through the principles based on love and compassion. — Dalai Lama
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the… — Heraclitus
The plan of spiritual evolution is marked not only by God's will that we move ever in the direction of love, nut also by another… — Marianne Williamson
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
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.… — Peter Drucker
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
Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such… — John Herschel
As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of… — Louis Pasteur
In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation. — Carl Linnaeus
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
These principles have given me a way of explaining naturally the union or rather the mutual agreement [conformité] of the soul and the organic body.… — Gottfried Leibniz
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

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