Quotes of: Fundamental-principles Keyword

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

Johann Heinrich Lambert

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Gunman: Nothing to say? Jeff Costello: Not with a gun on me. Gunman: Is that a principle? Jeff Costello: A habit.

Le Samouraï

Science is a principle and a process of seeking truth. Truth cannot be purchased, and thus, truth cannot be altered by money.

Tyrone Hayes

Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.

Xun Zi

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Igor Stravinsky

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Agatha Christie

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Aesop

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Alan Watts

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Ambrose Bierce

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

Lincoln Steffens

... the best education is self-discipline with good principles through human university.

Uzoma Nnadi

And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Wang Jianlin

What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s.

L. Neil Smith

Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles.

The Emperor's Soul

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

The Emotions: Outline of a Theory