Principle Quotes
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
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Never let pride be your guiding principle. Let your accomplishments speak for you.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness.
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This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.
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The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.
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Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
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But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
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It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
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Today's action means the core principle of protecting women's health as guaranteed by Roe v. Wade is in clear and present danger.
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My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient.
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The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
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My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor and friend. They taught me the basic principle that guides most all that I do: faith, focus, finish.
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It's not about the money. It never was. The fundamental principle is, the guy loves this whole thing.
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I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.
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The whole art of making experiments in chemistry is founded on the principle: we must always suppose an exact equality or equation between the principles of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.
