All things Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Download Open image “For not all things are practicable on identical principles” — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare All things Identical Integrity Principles
“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our principles are founded on the immovable basis of equal right and reason. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike. — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“A few individuals, by extraordinary genius, or by the accidental acquisition of a good set of intellectual habits, may work without principles in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image