Books Quote by Thomas Paine

“Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.”

— Thomas Paine

What one man can invent, another can discover.

— Anonymous

“Such is the conscious master, and man can only thus become by discovering within himself the laws of thought; which discovery is totally a…

— James Allen

“At present we have no clear grasp of the principle that every man should do the work for which he is fitted by nature!”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his greatest surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he…

— Henry Ford

“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

“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his…

— Anonymous

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

— Frederick The Great

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed.…

— Thomas Paine

The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what…

— Anonymous

It is not his possession of knowledge, of irrefutable truth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for…

— Karl Popper

“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical life, in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer