Quotes by Principles We have lost faith in the formal powers of the mind, not, as some suppose, because our universe is too difficult to grasp, but because we lack the inner principle of order. Lewis Mumford principlesmindorder Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. Leo Tolstoy patriotismtrainingprinciples 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 creditprincipleshonor I believe all complicated phenomena can be explained by simpler scientific principles. Linus Pauling i-believeprinciplesbelieve Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done. Linus Torvalds understandingprinciplesfundamentals Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves. Llewellyn Rockwell libertypoliticalprinciples In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. Lord Kelvin qualityprinciplesnumbers Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles. Lord Acton political-differencesmoralprinciples To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore. Loren Eiseley dragonsprinciplesfirsts False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations. Lord Acton elementsnormalprinciples To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. Lord Chesterfield vanityprinciplesmean The Revolution has grown cold; all its principles are weakened; there remains only red caps worn by intriguers. The exercise of terror has made crime blasé, as strong liquors made the palace blasé. Louis Antoine de Saint-Just strongprinciplesexercise Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance. Louis Agassiz demandprinciplesscience The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion. Louis de Broglie examinationprogressprinciples 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. Louis Garrel sentimentalemotionalprinciples I want the principles of a timeless muse, I want to eradicate my negative views. Lou Reed principlesviewsphilosophy Black leadership has to recognize that principles more than speech, character more than a claim, is greater in advancing the cause of our liberation than what has transpired thus far. Louis Farrakhan blackprinciplescharacter The secular university is scandalized by the claims of revelation. Those who have, for whatever historical reasons, become seekers-on-principle, cannot tolerate the allegation that truth is a gift. To have to receive offends those who have determined to take. Louis Mackey determinedhistoricalprinciples When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle. Lisa Kleypas hypocrisyprinciples An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times. Louis Sullivan intuitionprinciplesreal«6162636465666768697071»
