Principles Quotes

• What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Time
  • Art
  • Aesthetic

• Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Principles
  • Reconciled
  • Propensities

• The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

  

  Epictetus
  • Principles
  • Cause
  • Human Evils

• Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises,principles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Cause
  • Demonstration
  • Premises

• I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

  

  E.W. Jackson
  • God
  • Truth
  • Sin

• The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Principles

• I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

  

  Donald Miller
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Common

• I would never try to motivate anyone to follow me. I would motivate him to follow certain principles.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Never
  • Principles
  • Motivate

• When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

  

  Confucius
  • Exercises
  • Reciprocity
  • Cultivates

• If by sticking to the moral principles you have followed all your life, you jeopardize your happiness and that of others, throw over your principles. Principles for principles' sake -that is not wisdom; that is obstinacy. Principles should be fluid because life is fluid.

  

  Epifanio de los Santos
  • Wisdom
  • Happiness
  • Fluid

• The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders.

  

  Aristotle
  • Rules
  • Laws
  • Determines

• Thus then a single harmony orders the composition of the whole...by the mingling of the most contrary principles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Harmony
  • Composition
  • Contrary

• The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout

  

  Bruce Kovner
  • Patterns
  • Significance
  • Odds

• For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Thing
  • Conditions

• Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Principles
  • Modern Man
  • Distinctiveness

• I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

  

  John Marston
  • Men
  • Political
  • Ems

• In the past six months, our federal government has devised a dozen strategies to save America's financial markets. Each plan has been more costly, more risky, and less aligned with the principles of our country's free market economy than the last. I am disappointed to say that this latest plan puts all the rest of them to shame.

  

  Michael Enzi
  • Government
  • Economy
  • Plan

• There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Law
  • Integrity
  • Determination

• My work is an act of communication, and it's important to me the way what I assert lands, and where it lands within someone who sees it. On the other hand, I also recognize fully and live by the principle that once the work leaves my studio, I cannot control the effects it has.

  

  Adrian Piper
  • Important
  • Hands
  • Communication

• Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Today

• For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Action
  • Challenges
  • Pro-life

• No science ever defends its first principles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Science
  • Principles
  • Defends

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