Books Quote by Mason Cooley

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

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

“Principles are more important than methods.”

— Sven Kohlhaas

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

— Walter Savage Landor

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

— Leo Tolstoy

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

— Winston Churchill

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writing than to put one principle into practice

— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

— Mary Jo Putney

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are,…

— Clint Smith

Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep,…

— Stephen Covey

“A principle is a set of philosophical ideas and life lessons that are combined and compressed together to provide a general guideline in order…

— Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be…

— Isaac Newton