Principles Quotes

The principles governing the behavior of systems are not widely understood.

People do what they are told not to do. It happens time and time again. Here on the frozen tundra, it is known as the Tongue on the Frozen Pump Handle principle.

The keys to success, in business and in life, are truthfulness, the ability to take and give, honest and well-intended feedback, strength of character and conviction in one's principles

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.

Be flexible, but stick to your principles.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

I tend to approach things from a physics framework. And physics teaches you to reason from first principles rather than by analogy.

All seemingly profound thinking which passes for realism, because it conveniently does away with all troublesome principles, has agreat attraction for the adolescent mind.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to support.

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.

After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit of their heroism through a feeling of false security.

There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.

To lay aside all prejudices, is to lay aside all principles. He who is destitute of principles is governed by whims.

Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

Nothing distinguishes more clearly conditions in a free country from those in a country under arbitrary government than the observance in the former of the great principles known as the Rule of Law.

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism, but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance: life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

The principle was, death should not be entered like some snug harbor. It should be an unambiguous refusal to surrender.

The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.