Application Quote by George Polya

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It's not a principle unless it costs you something.

— Tobias Lutke

A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

— William Bernbach

Imitate nothing except principle.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

If you ask me if I have this or that principle, tell me what its consequences are, and then I'll tell you whether I…

— Robert Hass

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.

— Dick Cheney

If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that…

— Antoine Lavoisier

If you claim to have a theory that deduces unexpected consequences from nontrivial principles, let's see it.

— Noam Chomsky

A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.

— Myles Munroe

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

— Benjamin Disraeli