Top 100 Principle Is Quotes
#1. PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#2. A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
Luc De Clapiers
#3. Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.
Ludwig Von Mises
#4. The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.
Chris Alexander
#5. Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
Patrick Kavanagh
#6. Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
Honore De Balzac
#7. The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.
Allan Kardec
#8. As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering hisfellows. All hope in the grand possibilities of life are blasted.
Anna Julia Cooper
#9. If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.
Elmore Leonard
#10. The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.
Paul Davies
#11. Buddhism's cardinal ethical principle is to avoid causing harm.
Gil Fronsdal
#12. In business the 80/20 principle is behind any innovation, any extra value. It is an entrepreneurial principle, a formula for value creation utilized not only by entrepreneurs, but by most managers and organizations.
Richard Koch
#13. "Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.
Benjamin Hart
#14. As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#16. The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
Alan Turing
#17. Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
Lajos Kossuth
#18. In far from equilibrium conditions, the concept of probability that underlies Boltzmann's order principle is no longer valid if the structures we observe do not correspond to a maximum of complexions
Ilya Prigogine
#19. The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.
Eric Ludy
#20. The fundamental principle is that no battle, combat, or skirmish is to be fought unless it will be won.
Che Guevara
#21. A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
#22. The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans
in pure principle
we do not and never will know all the principles
R. Buckminster Fuller
#23. The principle is that every member needs to represent their district.
Dan Webster
#24. Our very existence imposes rules determining from where and at what time it is possible for us to observe the universe. That is, the fact of our being restricts the characteristics of the kind of environment in which we find ourselves. That principle is called the weak anthropic principle.
Stephen Hawking
#25. Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#26. If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the difficulty of insisting on its wider application does not furnish any proof that it ought not to be so applied.
Henry Parry Liddon
#27. The problem of how to characterise the properties that would trivialise the principle is one of the hardest problems concerning the principle of identity of indiscernibles and one the problems to which least attention has been paid of.
Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
#28. The distinction between 'prejudice' and 'principle' is itself a matter of prejudice.
Laura Bohannan
#29. The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham
#30. Aiming at giving our kids a competitive edge in a consumer society - that, in principle, is a goal that is limitless.
Michael Sandel
#31. I am a man of principles, and my first principle is flexibility.
Everett Dirksen
#32. Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle far beyond the degree requisite for the bare continuance of his species. What becomes of the surplus of human life to which this principle is competent?
James Madison
#33. All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced ... the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
Tertullian
#34. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine
#35. A state of war or anarchy, in which law has little force, is so far valuable, that it puts every man on trial. The man of principle is known as such, and even in the fury of faction is respected.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.
David Boaz
#37. The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.
Herbert Marcuse
#38. Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.
Orson F. Whitney
#39. Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.
Harry S. Truman
#41. The Tao's principle is spontaneity.
Laozi
#43. The basic principle is that there is a First Being who brought every existing thing into being, for if it be supposed that he did not exist, then nothing else could possibly exist.
Maimonides
#44. And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the happiest.
Aristotle.
#45. Segregation or separation is thus a basic principle of Biblical Law with respect to religion and morality. Every attempt to destroy this principle is an effort to reduce society to its lowest common denominator.
R.J. Rushdoony
#46. The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.
John Ruskin
#48. There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.
Anselm J. McLaurin
#49. My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.
Franz Kafka
#50. The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same.
Steven D. Levitt
#51. One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated.
Edward Teller
#52. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Feynman
#53. A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.
Andy Stanley
#54. what I call the "first love syndrome," found not only in what we most like in online systems but in movies, television shows, and novels.The principle is that we most love what we first experience
Paul Levinson
#55. Multiple international bodies have specified that the absence of scientific evidence of potential damage is not sufficient justification for taking risks. As the jurist Cass Sunstein points out, the precautionary principle is costly, and when interpreted strictly it can be paralyzing.
Daniel Kahneman
#56. The elementary parts of all tissues are formed of cells in an analogous, though very diversified manner, so that it may be asserted, that there is one universal principle of development for the elementary parts of organisms, however different, and that this principle is the formation of cells.
Theodor Schwann
#57. To extend kingdom principle is to have a fulfilled destiny
Sunday Adelaja
#59. The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.
Robert Schumann
#60. From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.
Russell Peters
#61. The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.
Zig Ziglar
#62. In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?
Hank Stuever
#63. Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.
Tony Blair
#64. An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
Bill Gates
#65. A principle is a truth that is established by God that can never be changed.
Myles Munroe
#66. If we analyse the supernova data by assuming the Copernican principle is correct and get out something unphysical, I think we should start questioning the Copernican principle ... . Whatever our theoretical predilections, they will in the end have to give way to the observational evidence.
George F. R. Ellis
#67. The first principle of life is love. The second principle is kindness. The third principle is compassion. The fourth principle is trust. The firth principle is integrity.
Debasish Mridha
#68. I don't know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It's the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.
Karen Traviss
#69. The principle is timeless: If Christ is not Lord over our money and possessions, he is not our Lord.
Randy Alcorn
#70. Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
Marcus Aurelius
#71. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.
Mao Zedong
#72. The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#73. Principle is OK up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose.
Dick Cheney
#74. The bad principle is that any man should hold over another the power to bind and loose. It's a false relationship to stand in towards one's fellows
Ethel Lilian Voynich
#75. The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price.
David Korten
#76. Baseness that does not possess its own starting point [or principle] is always less harmful than that which does possess it, and intellect is such a starting point. It
Aristotle.
#77. People on the worldly path, to them 'we' say, 'Practice complete honesty. If you cannot do that, then practice honesty within principle of limits. If you cannot do that and if you practice dishonesty, do it within limits. This principle is indeed what will take you further ahead.
Dada Bhagwan
#78. My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
Thomas Jefferson
#79. In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
Sun Myung Moon
#80. The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States.
Howard Zinn
#81. A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success.
Richie Norton
#83. The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Steve Young
#84. The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.
L. Ron Hubbard
#85. By thus rending the veil of monotony and showing that everything is in constant need of and obedient to His Lordship, He dispels heedlessness and turns humanity and jinn from (natural) causes to Himself as the Creator of causes. This basic principle is evident in the Qur'anic explanations.
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
#86. To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#87. Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
E.W. Howe
#88. The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.
George Polya
#91. The proper exegetical principle is this: Mosaic law is still to be enforced, by the church or the State or both, unless there is a specific injunction to the contrary in the New Testament.
Gary North
#92. This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker
#93. Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
Thomas Paine
#94. My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they're popular; you make them because they're right.
Theodore Hesburgh
#95. Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.
Jakob Bohme
#96. There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
#97. [L]earn how to distinguish the king from royalty; the king is but a man; royalty is the gift of God. Whenever you hesitate as to whom you ought to serve, abandon the exterior, the material for the invisible principle, for the invisible principle is everything.
Alexandre Dumas
#98. Whether it's before the election or after the election, the principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.
Mitch McConnell
#99. CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
Floyd Abrams
#100. Anybody can decide a question if only a single principle is in controversy.
Felix Frankfurter
