“ Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 1.9K
“ There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Principles do not much influence the unprincipled, nor mainly the principled. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
- 1.7K
“ 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. ”
- Michael Faraday- Copy
- 425
“ The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: 'It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. ”
- John Quincy Adams- Copy
- 1.1K
“ We speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. ”
- Robert Bolt- Copy
- 526
“ Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor - but they have few followers now. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
- 122
“ I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ Even an evil man can have principles — he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor. ”
- Ray Kroc- Copy
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“ Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ”
- Thomas Love Peacock- Copy
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“ A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines. ”
- Simone Weil- Copy
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“ When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
- 464
“ I found this very disturbing, Let your challenger stand. You are popular but that is not the reason for my saying these issues. Principles are principles. They are never divided. Please to my young comrade Yoweri Museveni, let those who want to challenge you do so. ”
- Kenneth Kaunda- Copy
- 899
“ The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are — and always will be. How things really are — and always will be — is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior… ”
- Susan Sontag- Copy
- 113
“ Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you, in the name of your principles, the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles… ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ Learn the principles, abide by the principles, and then dissolve the principles. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
- 898
“ Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 810
“ Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
- 3.4K
“ There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
- 113
“ Principles do not much influence the unprincipled, nor mainly the principled. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
- 1.6K
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