Axioms Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Axioms Books Prudence School
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Wisdom or intelligence and prudence are intellectual, liberality and temperance are moral virtues.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“taught them that whether a piece of writing is a novel or a law, each person is the sole arbiter of what that writing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Books are the greatest treasure of wisdom and knowledge for mankind.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God. — Charles de Foucauld Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently.… — Elizabeth Keckley Copy Share Image
But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We must start with scientific fundamentals, and that means with the data of experiments and not with assumed axioms predicated only upon the misleading… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It was an axiom of "containment" that no part of the known world could be considered neutral. "Neutralism" was among the Cold Warriors' gravest… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
