Principle Quotes

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health.

I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.