Principles Quotes

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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles… — Aristotle
Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be… — Alfred Renyi
Most remarks made by children consist of correct ideas very badly expressed. A good teacher will be very wary of saying 'No, that's wrong.' Rather,… — W. W. Sawyer
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started… — Ernst Mayr
You need in the long run for stability, for economic growth, for jobs, as well as for financial stability, global economic institutions that make sure… — Gordon Brown
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the… — Rudolf Arnheim
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel,… — Heber J. Grant
Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of… — Xunzi
No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance. — David Deutsch
When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyone’s graffiti. — Wayne LaPierre
It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles. — John Buchanan Robinson
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law –… — Lee Kuan Yew
The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an… — Bianca Jagger
I don't know anything about cars. A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I… — Edward Whitacre, Jr.
The constant exercise of our faith by lofty thinking, prayer, devotion, and acts of righteousness is just as essential to spiritual health as physical exercise… — O. Leslie Stone
Given currency by Jrgen Habermas in the late l980s, 'constitutional patriotism' has emerged as an appealing principle for post-national political allegiance. Jan-Werner Mller traces the… — Charles S. Maier
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and… — A. Theodore Tuttle
If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If… — Royden G. Derrick
Through the discovery of Buchner, Biology was relieved of another fragment of mysticism. The splitting up of sugar into CO2 and alcohol is no more… — Jacques Loeb
Gratitude is a SpiritEUR'filled principle. It opens our minds to a universe permeated with the richness of a living God. Through it, we become spiritually… — Bonnie D. Parkin
If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed… — Marcus J. Ranum
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer. — A. Powell Davies
Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as equals, to sit… — Harry Bridges

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