Quotes by Principles No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance. David Deutsch motivationprinciplesinspiration The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice. David Gilmour principlespractice Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry. David Hilbert small-numbersprinciplessimple Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature. David Hume principlesusehistory The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles. David James Duncan principlessoulspiritual The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. David J. Schwartz progressprinciplessteps No nation is better than its sacred book. In that book are expressed its highest ideals of life, and no nation rises above those ideals. No nation has a sacred book to be compared with ours. This American nation from its first settlement at Jamestown to the present hour is based upon and permeated by the principles of the Bible. The more this Bible enters into our national life the grander and purer and better will that life become. David Josiah Brewer jamestownprinciplesbook It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things. David Hume eventsprinciplesmen History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. David Hume human-natureprincipleshistory When I shall be dead, the principles of which I am composed will still perform their part in the universe, and will be equally useful in the grand fabric, as when they composed this individual creature. The difference to the whole will be no greater betwixt my being in a chamber and in the open air. The one change is of more importance to me than the other; but not more so to the universe. David Hume differencesprinciplesair Our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics. David Korten economicseconomyprinciples The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. David Korten degreescostprinciples With eternal investments there is never a loss of principle or principal. David Jeremiah principleschristianloss Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions David Hume passionprinciplesambition [The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an end to their miserable existence. David Hume principlesactionmen Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past. David Hume experienceprinciplespast Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead. David Lloyd George vultureconvictionprinciples It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen world. Reason, when obvious, prevents these corruptions: When abstruse, it keeps the principles entirely from the knowledge of the vulgar, who are alone liable to corrupt any principle or opinion. David Hume principlesraceworld And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. David McCullough principlesselfmatter .. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species. David Hume vicesprinciplesfeelings«1920212223242526272829»
