Quotes of: Moral-principles Keyword

It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.

Sheri L. Dew

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Henry Bolingbroke

Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.

Wilhelm Dilthey

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

Alfred Russel Wallace

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

Donald Tusk

The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.

Edwin Louis Cole

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

Cynthia Kenyon

Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.

Ian Curtis

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.

Bill Owens

A person who stands in the principle of justice even under person is a just person

bro. eli soriano

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

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