Quotes About Principles

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same

I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about Jazz.

Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Reason as an organ for perceiving the true nature of reality and determining the guiding principles of our lives has come to be regarded as obsolete.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.

Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.

Everything in life is built on principles - plants, seas, birds, all of the natural elements of nature, they all follow and obey certain basic fundamental principles.

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

They have been disrespecting our values and morals for very long time because of the nature of their values system.

Delayed gratification is to have a strong faith in the laws of nature and the principles of God.

My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life.

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea.

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.