Principles Quotes

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Oscar Wilde

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Bruce Lee

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Victor Hugo

Conquest is not in our principles; it is inconsistent with our government

Thomas Jefferson

You can't live principals you can't understand.

Stephen Covey

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Plato

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

George Bernard Shaw

Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.

Ray Kroc

The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

Blaise Pascal

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Plato

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

Aleister Crowley

Important principles may and must be inflexible.

Abraham Lincoln

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

George Eliot

People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luther

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

Percy Wynham Lewis