First Principles Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““Different first principles make debate impossible.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare First Principles
When people say, 'From first principles... ' to start their argument, what they mean is that they wish to assume as few things as… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
“while creating a debate is easy, creating a rigorous debate requires a deliberate approach.” — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Principles are like laws—you can’t break one simply because you and someone else agree to break it.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
“First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word.” — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“If principle is only defended when there’s nothing at stake, then it is probably not much of a principle after all.” — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism."… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell: The expression “free thought” is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this is only… — Jonathan M.S. Pearce Copy Share Image
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation… — A. Theodore Tuttle Copy Share Image
We need bold leadership to bring America back to its first principles of diversity inclusion and opportunity for everyone in every ZIP Code, and… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
“The emperor counsels simplicity. First principles. Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself, in its own constitution? What is its causal… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
“Most philosophers do not want intellectual matters to reduce to a question of morality (obedience or rebellion to God's Word). They want to hold… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Since I can see no answer to these questions, I draw the following conclusions. This thing which I have called for convenience the Tao,… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is the science of first principles, those which before being considered empirically or formally, are uncertain” — Frederico Rochaferreira Copy Share Image
