Principle Quotes
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I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
Albert Einstein -
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
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Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.
Aristotle -
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
Napoleon Hill -
...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.
Aristotle -
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Mark Twain -
When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.
Alberto Moravia -
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
John Milton
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
Lao Tzu -
The first principle of all action is leisure.
Aristotle -
It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.
Garet Garrett -
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
We need to shift from an economic to a humanitarian organizing principle for human civilization. And women, en masse, should be saying so.
Marianne Williamson -
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle or the pronouncements of a Plato can disestablish.
H. P. Lovecraft
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If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.
Antoine Lavoisier -
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
Yusuf Hamied -
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde -
The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
Wang Jianlin -
The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
Aaron Allston -
The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
Dan Webster
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My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.
Isaac Newton -
The attorney-client privilege is the bedrock principle of our legal system, ... The confidential nature of the attorney-client relationship is no less important in government than in every other context where it exists.
Charles Ruff -
Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter -
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.
Lakhdar Brahimi