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Tag Name "Principle" (1473)

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Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
Thomas Jefferson
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Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.
Sam Harris
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Principles do not mainly influence even the principled we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Walter Savage Landor
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Principle I: Legal rights are presumptive rights.
William Ernest Hocking
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Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.
William Ernest Hocking
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Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.
Russell Kirk
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Principle of Christian love: it insists upon being well paid in the end.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.
Stephen Covey
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Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.
William Ernest Hocking
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Principle is a passion for truth.
William Hazlitt
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I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
Mason Cooley
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But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.
Mark Twain
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The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal
Mark Twain
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A cardinal principle in systems theory is that all parties that have a stake in a system should be represented in its management.
Malcolm Knowles
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I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.
Mark Twain
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There are partnerships based on principle. There are partnerships based on pragmatism. And fortunately, when it comes to Indo-American relations, both concentrations find a new robust phase of relationship, a multi-fasted relationship which I believe exists in the interests of both our countries.
Manmohan Singh
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It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.
Marsden Hartley
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The seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution. This Marxist-Leninist principle of revolution holds well universally, for China and for all other countries.
Mao Zedong
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You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.
Martin Amis
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One universe made up all that is and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.
Marcus Aurelius
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It sounds schmaltzy to say, but fiction is much more to do with love than people admit or acknowledge. The novelist has to not only love his characters - which you do, without even thinking about it, just as you love your children. But also to love the reader, and that's what I mean by the pleasure principle.
Martin Amis
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It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
Marcus Aurelius
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
Martin Buber
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