Quotes About Principles

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated

One of the things I love most about Martin Luther King is that he was willing to sacrifice his popularity in favor of his integrity. He was an honest man, and he would tell the truth.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

My personal opinion is that truth, like honesty and non-harmfulness, often are at odds with one another.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with nonviolence, reject it.

Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.

Veracity is the heart of morality.

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

Our thoughts and actions must in no way be determined by the approval or disapproval of our time, but by the binding obligation to a truth which we have recognized.

I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed by the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.

Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it.

We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.

Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.