Civilized Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Download Open image “To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized First Principles Integrity Principles
To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
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
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If you are not willing to take pain to live by your principles, there is no point in having principles. — Marvin Bower Copy Share Image
It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will to doubt can be just… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“To be a person of principle is to accept the reality that their stance will never cease to draw the fire of those whose… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right… — John Barnes Copy Share Image
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home — Joseph Anderson Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
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