Top 100 Principles Of Quotes
#1. The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.
Peter Singer
#2. 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.
Antoine Lavoisier
#3. You need to do more than memorize, Quentin. You must learn the principles of magic with more than your head. You must learn them with your bones, with your blood, your liver, your heart, your deek. He grabbed his crotch through his dressing gown and gave it a shake.
Lev Grossman
#4. I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.
Davy Crockett
#5. The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.
Ludwig Quidde
#6. The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
Michael Porter
#7. You can't make a difference if you are not trained in the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#8. I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.
Al Jaffee
#9. To establish principles of her kingdom is to function In Optimal Health
Sunday Adelaja
#10. Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?
Gene Fowler
#11. When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.
George Soros
#12. For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.
Marissa Mayer
#13. An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and civility, and that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.
Roger Williams
#14. [I shall not] discuss scientific method, but rather the methods of scientists. We proceed by common sense and ingenuity. There are no rules, only the principles of integrity and objectivity, with a complete rejection of all authority except that of fact.
Joel Henry Hildebrand
#15. To fulfil destiny is to bring the whole earth under the principles of God's kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#16. My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
Ada Yonath
#17. You can't change the world if you don't know the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#18. You Are Where You Are So To Promote The Principles Of The Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#19. There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#20. Many people would fight against the idea that they are corrupt. While in the real sense, they are corrupt because they don't live by the principles of honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
#21. The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. If I cannot have a religion that will lead me to God, and place me en rapport with him, and unfold to my mind the principles of immortality and eternal life, I want nothing to do with it.
John Taylor
#23. If we want to abide and move in the Kingdom of God, we have to become obedient to the
principles of the Kingdom
Sunday Adelaja
#24. It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech.
Ludwig Von Mises
#25. Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness ... The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. - Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS
Kathleen Norris
#26. Founded on the principles of private initiative, entrepreneurship and self-employment, underpinned by the values of democracy, equality and solidarity, the co-operative movement can help pave the way to a more just and inclusive economic order.
Kofi Annan
#27. Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Zi
#28. I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views.
Lou Reed
#29. After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#30. To me nonviolence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people. Therefore I am devoting all my energies toward the establishment of a society that would be based on its principles of truth and peace.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
#31. To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron D'Holbach
#32. As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.
Marianne Williamson
#33. Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations ... may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.
Roger Cotes
#34. If you see any country that is advanced and developed today, it is because that society is fundamentally based on principles of truth and honesty.
Sunday Adelaja
#35. "a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" " ... this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"
Alec Douglas-Home
#36. The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as the vertebrae ... I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebra, for this art has been practiced for thousands of years.
Daniel D. Palmer
#37. I didn't know the Bible said anything about money. Twenty percent of what Christ talked about was money. You think about it - so does God. Think you need it - God knows it ... The principles of Jesus Christ create your prosperity.
Mike Murdock
#38. God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour;
John Locke
#39. And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.
Abdu'l- Baha
#40. I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.
Assata Shakur
#41. Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#42. The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
Calvin Coolidge
#43. This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
Marcus Garvey
#44. The principles of earth are the same law that governs heaven
Sunday Adelaja
#45. To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.
Ryuho Okawa
#46. The only 'ironclad rules' in writing fiction are the laws of physics and the principles of grammar, and even those can be bent.
Val Kovalin
#47. One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.
Andrew Young
#48. Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:8 (emphasis added) So
Andy Mason
#49. Transforming a team, let alone an entire organisation, from the principles of command and control to those based on servant-leadership, from plans based on prediction to plans based on empirical, evolutionary data requires both patience and tenacity.
Geoff Watts
#50. We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Theodore C. Sorensen
#51. If some people see angels where others only see empty space, let them paint the angels; only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.
John Ruskin
#52. This book proves that a godly attitude lies at the heart of Christian leadership. It does not borrow principles of leadership from the world and apply them to the church, but rather derives principles of leadership directly from the Scriptures.
J. Oswald Sanders
#53. The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.
David Hume
#54. If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous ... There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason.
Blaise Pascal
#55. There are principles which govern our life-they are the principles of Life. If our life is lived according to these principles all is well, and harmony reigns in place of vexation and struggle.
Henry Thomas Hamblin
#56. Our own poor poets, I am afraid, have been so intimidated by our clinics and laboratories that they have abandoned the first principles of beginning, that of the festival; and the heart of the festival has always been the atmosphere of myth, of delight.
Joseph Campbell
#57. One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.
Ken Blanchard
#58. No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.
Tryon Edwards
#59. [The Constitution] will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom ... men and women who will subscribe to and abide the principles of the Constitution.
Ezra Taft Benson
#60. The church must be involved in all the seven spheres of life extending the virtues and principles of the kingdom of God
Sunday Adelaja
#61. For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#62. Devoted to principles of liberty, equality, and religious tolerance
which, dear internet, is not necessarily the same thing as satanism
Masonic lodge became the de facto clubhouses of the Age of Reason.
Sarah Vowell
#63. The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
Thomas S. Monson
#64. The visible structure of Jane Austen's stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct. On her bit of ivory she has engraved a criticism of life as serious and as considers as Hardy's.
David Cecil
#65. A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
A.R. Ammons
#66. The only strategy to protect and preserve a nation is to establish the golden rules and principles of the Kingdom of God in the society.
Sunday Adelaja
#67. The scientific principles of the convergence and refraction of light are very confusing, and quite frankly I can't make head or tail of them, even when my friend Dr. Lorenz explains them to me.
Lemony Snicket
#68. It is imperative to master the principles of the art of war and learn to be unmoved in mind even in the heat of the battle.
Miyamoto Musashi
#69. I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#70. Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.
Lysander Spooner
#71. It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles
Sunday Adelaja
#72. Still, Amelia had not allowed herself to be certain until dessert, when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.
Gabrielle Zevin
#73. Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.
Louis O. Kelso
#74. Okay," she said. "I'm going to start with four basic principles of civilization. 1) Ethics is based on consent. 2) Victims shall not mete out justice themselves. 3) Government serves the will of the people. 4) Giant unwashed beards are gross.
Zach Weinersmith
#75. One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
Carolyn Wells
#76. France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
Francois Hollande
#77. There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice
Chris Hedges
#78. In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.
Ali Abdullah Saleh
#79. Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.
Frederick The Great
#80. Everyone knows the principles of Beautiful life but,
only few of them have opportunities to follow them.
Kartik Mehta
#81. Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
Hosea Ballou
#82. True development only comes when the principles of truth and honesty have been successfully transmitted into the daily and everyday lifestyle of the people.
Sunday Adelaja
#83. It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.
C. JoyBell C.
#84. And who shall calculate the immense influence upon social life
upon arts
upon commerce
upon literature
which will be the immediate result of the great principles of electro-magnetics!
Edgar Allan Poe
#85. Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.
Lydia M. Child
#86. Women do not have to embrace principles of imperialism, corporatism and militarism in order to be a feminist. There is another feminist choice, which is consistent with the broader principles of feminism.
Jill Stein
#87. Patriotism never demands obedience to the state but rather obedience to the principles of liberty.
Ron Paul
#88. A man of broad principles. Of liberal sentiments. Even a generous man ... Yet one might say that his way through the world was so broad it scarcely made a path at all
Cormac McCarthy
#89. life sciences doubt the existence of soul not just due to lack of evidence, but rather because the very idea of soul contradicts the most fundamental principles of evolution. This
Yuval Noah Harari
#90. Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth in alliance together, it suggests, however indirectly, high and noble principles of action, and it inspires the emotion so helpful in making principles operative.
Matthew Arnold
#91. It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.
William Morris Davis
#92. Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.
David Schweikert
#93. Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.
Michael Urie
#94. The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God
Sunday Adelaja
#95. The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'.
Black Thought
#96. One either absorbs the grammatical principles of one's native language in conversation and in reading or one does not. What Sophomore English does (or tries to do) is little more than the naming of parts.
Stephen King
#97. The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
Edmund Burke
#98. Those distinct substances, which concretes generally either afford, or are made up of, may, without very much inconvenience, be called the elements or principles of them.
Robert Boyle
#99. Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
Benjamin Whichcote
#100. Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.
Bernard Baruch
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