When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.
The principle trap that the devil sets for young people is idleness.
Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.
I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that.
Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i. e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science, it is necessary to proceed in an analytical manner by breaking down the complex into elementary principles.
The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being.
I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.
The pejorative term "political correctness" was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.
The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.
The second principle of magic: things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed.
It's important to adhere to the principles of a large group of people that truly believe these principles, and if they believe them, then that's good enough for me.
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
To me dogs are not the students, not the ones that need training. To me a dog is a teacher of life, who teaches us the principles of the most important moral values; honesty, integrity, loyalty, trust, respect and love.