Quotes About Principle

The consequences of Thomson's Principle of Dissipation were elaborated by Hermann von Helmholtz, who two years later described the "heat death" of the universe, the consequence of the transformation of all energy into heat [14].

The manual is written in an authoritative tone as if it were the voice of God revealing indisputable truths, but in fact it fails to teach its readers a core principle of scientific thinking: the importance of examining and ruling out other possible explanations for a person's behavior before deciding which one is the most likely.

The world is caught up by appearances, dazzled by their infinite variety, snared by illusion, endlessly distracted, and does not recognize me, the eternal principle that connects the humblest flower with the grandeur of the constellations.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

Honesty, not modesty, is a virtue.

It is said that the end justifies the means, but that overlooks the crucial detail that only just means will culminate in a just end.

Faith preceded understanding, and so faith informed and shaped understanding. Working from this principle, Kuyper insisted that reason, natural science, and methodological naturalism were not ideologically neutral. Even the most technical of natural sciences, he observed, operated within the framework of the faith, or higher commitments, of the practitioner.

I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else follows.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

No system of education can be perfect which does not teach the principle of righteousness and faith in God. Learning has not saved the world. It is of utmost importance that our children should, in the first place, be taught faith in God. This cannot be left out of our system of education.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

I CAN STATE THE CORE IDEA in two relatively simple propositions. One is that in situations that have thinking participants, the participants' view of the world is always partial and distorted. That is the principle of fallibility. The other is that these distorted views can influence the situation to which they relate because false views lead to inappropriate actions. That is the principle of reflexivity.

I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.

The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.

Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle.

Freedom is the great organizing principle of a life lived in a truly human way.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

When in doubt, do the right thing