Axioms Quotes
Axioms Quote of the day
Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
We should never forget the two axioms: 'Jesus is with me' and whatever happens, happens by the will of God.
We know that there is no absolute knowledge, that there are only theories; but we forget this. The better educated we are, the harder we believe in axioms.
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is full of endless nuances and cannot be captured in just a few formulae.
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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.
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.
You can "prove" anything on the verbal level, just be accepting the necessary axioms at the beginning.
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words.
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.
It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.
In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.
It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.
Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.
A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.
Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.
Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
A maid’s yard, house, wardrobe, fridge, etc. sometimes also serve as her master’s dustbin or dumpsite.
Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.
His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.
Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.
You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.
The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.
Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.
Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.
Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.
There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.
Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.
In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.
Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.
Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.
Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.