Principles Quotes - Page 16

Skepticism rather than credulity is the highest principle that the human intellect can use to ennoble our existence.

We are now going through a period of demolition. In morals, in social life, in politics, in medicine, and in religion there is a universal upturning of foundations. But the day of reconstruction seems to be looming, and now the grand question is: Are there any sure and universal principles that will evolve a harmonious system in which we shall all agree?

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference.

The fellow has absolutely no principles."Money and gall" is all he has.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

There are intelligible principles inherent in the matter of every phenomenon; because matter is essentially the sum of all the seemings that it has for any and all persons.

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

if we don't stand for something, you may be sure we will fall for anything.

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

I also require much time to ponder over the matters themselves, and particularly the principles of mechanics (as the very words: force, time, space, motion indicate) can occupy one severely enough; likewise, in mathematics, the meaning of imaginary quantities, of the infinitesimally small and infinitely large and similar matters.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

Israel does not respect the principles or purposes of the United Nations charter nor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.

Sacrifice money rather than principle.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

I love this country, I love the principles on which it's founded.

There is no shortage of time. In fact, we are positively awash with it. We only make good use of 20 per cent of our time.... The 80/20 principle says that if we doubled our time on the top 20% of activities, we could work a two-day week and achieve 60 per cent more than now.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.