Principles Quotations | Page 12

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.

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.

The synergetic integral of the totality of all principles is God, whose sum-total behavior in pure principle is beyond our comprehension and is utterly mysterious to us, because as humans--in pure principle--we do not and never will know all the principles

I'm not trying to copy Nature, I'm trying to find the principles she's using.

The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.

There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.

I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... It is the picture you have of yourself - the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.

Ads push the principle of noise all the way to the plateau of persuasion. They are quite in accord with the procedures of brainwashing.

Pope John Paul II stands like a rock against all opposition in his clear enunciation of the foundational principles of the Christian faith.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

A doctrine is something that pins you down to a given mode of conduct and dozens of situations which you cannot foresee, which is a great mistake in principle. When the word 'containment' was used in my 'X' article, it was used with relation to a certain situation then prevailing, and as a response to it.

I thought I could do that by telling stories of some of the cases that established those principles on a real life on the ground basis.

Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can untie in a common objective and sustain common principles.

Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

The starting-point and chief principle of every science, and hence of theology also, is not only methodical doubt, but positive doubt. One can believe only what one has perceived to be true from reasonable grounds, and consequently one must have the courage to continue doubting until one has found reliable grounds to satisfy the reason.

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

Let our lives be in accordiance with our convictions of right, each striving to carry out our principles

If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'

Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.

[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically frozen relations of dependence that can in principle be transformed.

I follow a set of principles; I follow the Constitution. And that's what I base my votes on. Limited government, economic freedom, and individual liberty.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

For me the core principles of privacy online are transparency, choice and control.

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

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy.

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

One of the major principles is that Soviet literature must be inseverably linked with the policy of the Communist party

The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

Relationship Principle 11 It is better to be disliked for being who you are than to be loved for who you are not.

Relationship Principle 10 You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.

Relationship Principle 6 Men see how you dress, and then make assumptions about your relationship potential.

Relationship Principle 3 He doesn't marry a woman who is perfect. He marries the woman who is interesting.

I firmly believe that the principles behind Contraction & Convergence provide the best long-term framework for a fair and equitable climate change mitigation policy

Once you become aware of your own body and its movements, you will be surprised that you are not your body. This is something of a basic principle, that if you can watch something then you are not it. You are the watcher, not the watched. You are the observer, not the observed. How can you be both?

In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being

Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.

The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.

It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans, the one goes with the other.

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for.

Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.

Science is about principles. It's about concepts. It's not about memorizing the parts of a flower. It helps to know some of these things, but if that's all you do that's not science, science is about principles and concepts.

Find that thing you are super passionate about. A lot of founding principles of Facebook are that if people have access to more information and are more connected, it will make the world better; people will have more understanding, more empathy. That’s the guiding principle for me. On hard days, I really just step back, and that’s the thing that keeps me going.

A person is said to have good character when their habits, dispositions and conduct reflect a deep commitment to ethical virtues and moral principles.

What I am endeavoring to do is simply speak the truth, speak common-sense values, free market principles and the Constitution. For every question, the Constitution is my touchstone.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle...

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus Christ. The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is getting his way with us.

Never make a principle out of your experience. Allow God to be as creative with others as He is with you.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

If they be principles evident of themselves, they need nothing to evidence them.

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.