Assured Quote by Joseph Priestley

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

— Errico Malatesta

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren…

— Thomas Traherne

“Your principles have life in them. For how can they perish, unless the ideas that correspond to them are extinguished? And it is up…

— Marcus Aurelius

“When the superior man has free course with his principles, that is what we call his success; when such course is denied, that is…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“    The contrariety of human nature is a subject that has given a surprising amount of occupation to makers of proverbs and to those moral…

— R. Austin Freeman

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

— Seneca the Younger

We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.

— Francis of Assisi

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive…

— Frances Wright

Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary…

— George Berkeley

“Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural…

— Alija Izetbegović

“When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested…

— David Hume

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley