Carrie Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The maxim, as has been already said, is a general statement, and people love to hear stated in general terms what they already believe…

— Aristotle

The forming of general maxims from particular observation is a very nice operation; and nothing is more usual, from haste or a narrowness of…

— David Hume

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

— Blaise Pascal

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

— Blaise Pascal

“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

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage…

— Charles Caleb Colton

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise…

— Mahatma Gandhi

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

— Zhuangzi

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

— Albert Einstein

“The alternative to maximizing is to be a satisficer. To satisfice is to settle for something that is good enough and not worry about…

— Barry Schwartz

“Maxims were like neural shortcuts, like icons on a desktop that instantly connect you to a body of information.”

— Jules Evans