Principles Quotes - Page 34

• In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

  Stephen Hawking

  Uncertainty Principle, Discovery, Law

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.150, Random House

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• Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Use

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• There is only one power and one dictatorship whose organisation is salutary and feasible: it is that collective, invisible dictatorship of those who are allied in the name of our principle.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Names, Invisible, Dictatorship

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  Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Understanding

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• By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.

  Stephen Covey

  Perspective, Fundamentals, Centering

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.149, Mango Media Inc.

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• We must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.

  Desmond Tutu

  Speak, Reconciliation

  Desmond Tutu, John Webster (1982). “Bishop Desmond Tutu, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: a collection of his recent statements in the struggle for justice in South Africa”

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• Personally I do not believe in a national agency devoted only to the negro blind because in spirit and principle I am against all segregation, and the blind already have difficulties enough without being cramped and harassed by social barriers.

  Helen Keller

  Believe, Agency, Spirit

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.97, American Foundation for the Blind

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• The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Commitment, Light, People

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• Ignorance of God and of ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments; and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but for want of consideration and application.

  John Owen

  Ignorance, Light, Want

  John Owen (1851). “The Works ...”, p.637

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• Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

  William James

  Appreciated, Human Nature, Humans

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• Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness and perpetuity. Where this is lacking, no man's character is strong; no nation's life can be lasting.

  Orson F. Whitney

  Strong, Character, Greatness

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• Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Long, Want, Matter

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.158, Crown Forum

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• Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Choices, Matter

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• Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.

  John McCain

  Children, Government, Order

  "McCain's two swipes at Bush" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2006.

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• If the six-nation forums dealing with Iran and North Korea suffer comparable failures, the consequence will be a world of unchecked proliferation, not controlled by either governing principles or functioning institutions. A modern, strong, peaceful Iran could become a pillar of stability and progress in the region. This cannot happen unless Iran's leaders decide whether they are representing a cause or a nation - whether their basic motivation is crusading or international cooperation. The goal of the diplomacy of the Six should be to oblige Iran to confront this choice.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Strong, Motivation, Korea

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• After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend to learn in theory only.

  Koichi Tohei

  Understanding, Body, Realizing

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• In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with him, so that you may stretch or contract them at will when necessary, and pull or push him in any direction you choose. If you pull your opponent or apply your tricks on him by putting from the beginning too much strength in your arms, then you are going to contest with him by means of your power and against the principles of Judo. In doing so, you can never expect to succeed in your contest.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Mean, May, Opponents

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• It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Moving, Psychology, Humans

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• You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Practice, Intolerance, Platforms

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• Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

  Margaret Thatcher

  Leader, Vision, Endure

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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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• Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Choices, Agents

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Justice, Psychology, Democracy

  "An oft-repeated 'truth'" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2004.

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• I think it's just natural when you're governing, that it's not always easy to remain as pure in principle as you'd like to be.

  Rona Ambrose

  Thinking, Easy, Natural

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.

  Moby

  Stupid, Fall, Guiding Principles

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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