Top 100 Quotes About Axiom
#1. But now he knows for certain how true the axiom is, because he himself - his very life - has proven it. The person I was will always be the person I am, he realizes.
Hanya Yanagihara
#2. Scientific axiology arises from the unfolding of the following axiom: Value is the degree in which a thing possesses the set of qualities corresponding to the set of attributes in the intension of its concept.
John William Davis
#3. It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.
Alexander Hamilton
#4. A straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.
Maria Edgeworth
#5. In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#6. It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
Frank Herbert
#7. Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Laurence J. Peter
#8. Wondering how one went about forcing one's mind into blankness, particularly after a lifetime lived on the axiom that the constant, clearest, most ruthless function of his rational faculty was his foremost duty.
Ayn Rand
#9. There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
Gustave Flaubert
#10. We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad. We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order. We see change as being order itself-indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.
Peter Drucker
#11. To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers' ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
John Gabriel Stedman
#12. Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.
Brad Alan Lewis
#13. Hm ... yes, all is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. There's no right or wrong way to seek truth, and as the old axiom states, all paths lead to the same place.
Skye Alexander
#15. A new generation gladly abandons its critical and skeptical faculties. Old slogans and hatreds are dusted off. What was only recently muttered guiltily is now offered as political axiom and agenda.
Carl Sagan
#16. It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#17. All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.
Edwin A. Abbott
#18. Experiment escorts us last-
His pungent company
will not allow an axiom
An opportunity
Emily Dickinson
#19. It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.
Sam Savage
#20. AXIOM. - Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#21. What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.
David Hackworth
#22. There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.
Harry S. Truman
#23. The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.
Frank Chodorov
#24. It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
John George Nicolay
#25. I have never believed in the axiom that a writer should first and foremost write about what he knows. I think it's a piece of misinformation.
William Trevor
#26. It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#27. The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#28. Money does not pay for anything, never has, never will. It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.
Albert J. Nock
#29. My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
Ayn Rand
#30. They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much
Stephen King
#31. It was as if he were a single whole, grasped by her first glance at him, like some irreducible absolute, like an axiom not to be explained any further, as if she knew everything about him by direct perception, and what awaited her now was only the process of identifying her knowledge.
Ayn Rand
#32. It is a fundamental axiom of married life that you must lie to a woman. She likes it!
Agatha Christie
#33. There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.
Chris Jordan
#34. Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.
Enid Bagnold
#35. Everything is darkest," Xaphen mused, "before the dawn."
"That, my brother, is an axiom that sounds immensely profound until you realize it's a lie.
Aaron Dembski-Bowden
#36. This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.
David Foster Wallace
#37. Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
Walt Alston
#38. The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
Edgar Allan Poe
#39. Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.
Maggie Nelson
#40. It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
#41. The mathematician uses an indirect definition of congruence, making use of the fact that the axiom of parallels together with an additional condition can replace the definition of congruence.
Hans Reichenbach
#42. All roads lead to Amber, he said, as though it were an axiom.
Roger Zelazny
#43. There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.
Epes Sargent
#44. The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
Murray Rothbard
#45. It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.
Robert N. Lee
#46. This is not new: people do business with people they like, know and trust. Taking that axiom in to account, would YOU trust YOU?
Beth Ramsay
#47. No axiom is more clearly established in law or in reason than wherever the end is required, the means are authorized; wherever a general power to do a thing is given, every particular power for doing it is included.
James Madison
#48. Keep in mind this basic axiom - if all that now exists was once imagined, then what you want to exist for you in the future must now be imagined.
Wayne W. Dyer
#49. The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.
Alonzo Church
#50. It's a law enforcement axiom. But who better to help bust a crack dealer than another crack dealer? Who better to bring down a mob boss than another mobster? As long as there have been cops, they've been making deals with informants,
John Shiffman
#51. To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort.
Ayn Rand
#52. Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You're stronger. Trust your stillsuit. She
Frank Herbert
#53. The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.
Bertrand Russell
#54. Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.
Ayn Rand
#55. Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
James A. Garfield
#56. At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.
Bertrand Russell
#58. It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
Thomas Jefferson
#59. ( ... )man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#60. We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
Robert Caro
#61. To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.
Bertrand Russell
#62. Axiom #3: When told how to apply sermons specifically, most people over-congratulate themselves on how biblically they already live while thinking of others who could really use the sermon.
Calvin Miller
#63. One might even state it as an axiom: when the church leaves out bits of its core teaching, heretics will pick them up, turn them into something new, and use them to spread doubt and unbelief.
N. T. Wright
#64. My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.
Thomas Huxley
#65. At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.
David Foster Wallace
#66. It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.
James Grant
#67. A meticulous ethnological testament holds that whatever we subsist upon molds us. Another often-repeated axiom holds that at midlife every person has the face that he or she deserves.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#68. I lie on my back
And you open me up, because
Positions change but not the axiom:
One cannot be top
If one cannot be bottom.
Ronald Baytan
#69. Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.
John Searle
#70. An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#71. It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Maxwell Maltz
#72. Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.
Donald A. Norman
#73. The basis of almost every argument or conclusion I can make is the axiom that the short story can be anything the author decides it shall be; ... In that infinite flexibility, indeed lies the reason why the short story has never been adequately defined.
H.E. Bates
#74. Whence we may draw the general axiom, which never or rarely errs, that he who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone, since he must work either by address or force, each of which excites distrust in the person raised to power.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#75. What government supports, government controls. This is an ancient axiom repeatedly ratified by experience ... Indeed, as is well known, acceptance of tax aid has led to the secularization of many church-related colleges and universities.
Edd Doerr
#76. You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You've heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.
Rush Limbaugh
#77. What I'm doing in here isn't all that different from what I was doing outside. I'll hand you a pretty cynical axiom: the amount of financial help an individual or company needs rises in direct proportion to how many people that person or business is screwing.
Stephen King
#78. We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
Lynn Townsend White Jr.
#79. It is supposed to be an axiom of "Western" civilization that the individual, or the truth, may not be sacrificed to hypothetical benefits such as "order.
Christopher Hitchens
#80. It is an axiom of political life that you never raise expectations, whether in a political or military campaign, because your defeats are then magnified and your victories discounted.
Charles Krauthammer
#82. The controversy as to whether socialism is possible has been settled by the fact that it exists, and it is a fundamental axiom of my philosophy, at any rate, that anything that exists, is possible.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#83. The first axiom of Marx Scientist is that everything they tell you is a lie. The second axiom is that it doesn't matter, since you are lying too. The third axiom is 'Kill all liars!
Roger Scruton
#84. The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can.
Moses Mendelssohn
#85. The old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato 's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.
Oswald Mosley
#86. The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are.
Julius Evola
#87. Life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero.
Hanya Yanagihara
#88. The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.
Max Frisch
#89. It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#90. Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.
Margaret Atwood
#91. The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.
Marni Jackson
#92. You may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing
Benjamin Graham
#93. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
Mary-Louise Parker
#94. The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This axiom, supposed to be the basis of the syllogistic theory, is termed by logicians the dictum de omni et nullo.
John Stuart Mill
#95. For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.
Elizabeth Keckley
#96. We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom of the two that innocence can look like guilt.
Wilkie Collins
#97. It's a very old axiom, but do you believe the end can justify the means? When there's no choice left?
James Dashner
#98. To accept the dignity of another person is an axiom. It has nothing to do with subduing, supporting, or giving charity to other people.
Leo Tolstoy
#99. There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.
Jacob Bronowski
#100. His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
