Fundamental Principles Quotes

• It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Character, Apology

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup: the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.

  Hermann Weyl

  Simple, Simplicity, Principles

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.

  Deena Metzger

  Attitude, Compassion, Ideas

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• Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.

  David G. McAfee

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Principles, Fundamentals

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• One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.

  Elon Musk

  Views, Tree, Advice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. January 5, 2015.

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• In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.

  George Orwell

  Past, Achievement, Principles

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.418, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  Yusuf Hamied

  Suffering, Principles, Fundamentals

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• Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect. My fundamental principle would be ... that we are to be saved by our good works which are within our power, and not by our faith which is not within our power.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Principles, Example, Would Be

  Thomas Jefferson, Allen Jayne (1984). “The religious and moral wisdom of Thomas Jefferson: an anthology”

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• I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Men, Principles

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.680, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only way to remain great is to keep on applying the fundamental principles that made you great.

  James C. Collins

  Principles, Fundamentals, Way

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• What I want to make clear though is that we oppose terrorism in any form. However, any operation against terrorism should be under the framework of the United Nations and follow the fundamental principles of international laws.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Law, Principles, Fundamentals

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• Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Flower, Important, Fundamentals

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• All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community.

  George Washington

  Real, Party, Character

  George Washington, United States. President (1789-1797 : Washington) (1847). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796”, p.7

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• We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Principles, Fundamentals, Thrust

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3227, Manonmani Publishers

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• That no free government, nor the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles; and by the recognition by all citizens that they have duties as well as rights, and that such rights cannot be enjoyed save in a society where law is respected and due process is observed.

  George Mason

  Blessing, Rights, Government

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• The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

  George Washington

  Majority, Principles, Fundamentals

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• Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Buddhist, Philosophical

  Dalai Lama (2004). “Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection”, Snow Lion Publication

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• Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right-the right to life-and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.

  Ayn Rand

  Military, Sacrifice, Men

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.216, Penguin

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• And now one of the greatest and most fundamental principles of the Cause of God is to shun and avoid entirely the Covenant-breakers, for they will utterly destroy the Cause of God, exterminate His Law and render of no account all efforts exerted in the past.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Past, Law, Effort

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• There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.

  James Madison

  Mean, Hands, Promise

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.37, University of Virginia Press

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• A fundamental principle of information theory is that you can’t guarantee outcomes… in order for an experiment to yield knowledge, it has to be able to fail. If you have guaranteed experiments, you have zero knowledge

  George Gilder

  Zero, Yield, Order

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• Language is one of the fundamental principles of human understanding. It is the way we interact with each other and how we grasp the world we live in. Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

  Linus Torvalds

  Understanding, Principles, Fundamentals

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• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

  Wernher von Braun

  Religious, Real, Thinking

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• Let each of us accept the truth of the following statement and try to make it our most fundamental principle: Christ's teaching will never let us down, while worldly wisdom always will. Christ Himself said that this sort of wisdom was like a house with nothing but sand as its foundation, while His own was like a building with solid rock as its foundation.

  Vincent de Paul

  Teaching, Rocks, House

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