Quotes About Principles

As Emerson said: 'Character is higher than intellect.

You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and your heart.

A character rich with integrity, courage and trustworthiness is the bedrock of lifelong success.

Character is higher than intellect

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as to think.' Your

Listen to your conscience. Let it guide you. It knows what is right.

Authenticity Guts Ethics

sé intachablemente íntegro»; «vive el momento presente»; «conviértete en la persona más amable que conoces»; «hazlo lo mejor que puedas y aspira a la excelencia en todo lo que hagas»; «sé fiel a ti mismo» y «atrévete a soñar». La mayoría de nosotros conocemos esos principios, pero pocos los aplicamos.

He taught Julian ancient principles which he said anyone could use to live longer, stay younger and grow far happier.

I believed that 'freedom' is not a clear or sufficient answer to the question of what conservatives believe in. Like Matthew Arnold, I held that 'freedom is a very good horse to ride, but to ride somewhere'.

We've got to stand up not only for free speech, but also for all that we've inherited from the Enlightenment and from Christianity.

In general we should be aware of, and protective towards, those precious legal instruments that we already possess, and which often depend on principles of equity and natural law and not on top-down legislation.

The utopian is the one who thinks that the ideal can be realized, and who therefore sets out to destroy the obstacles that stand in its way. The Kantian believes that ideals cannot be realized, since we live in an imperfect world, impeded by empirical circumstances. Ideals must be construed as regulative principles, which guide us down the path of amelioration. Hence we must strive always to amend things, and never to tear them down.

One of the great gifts of the Enlightenment is that we can form communities without necessaily agreeing on ultimate metaphysical grounds. We know that to a great extent that the principles of social coordination are manmade, we recognise the right of the other to exist. This is something that distinguishes our part of the world from the middle East.

Burr, "His manner was patronizing. . . . As he revealed himself to my moral sense, I saw he was destitute of any fixed principles.

Robert Troup said that Hamilton rejected fees if they were larger than he thought warranted and generally favored arbitration or amicable settlements in lieu of lawsuits.

love of fame, the ruling passion of the noblest minds, which would prompt a man to plan and undertake extensive and arduous enterprises for the public benefit." Ambition was reckless if inspired by purely selfish motives but laudable if guided by great principles.

If forced to choose, Hamilton preferred a man with wrong principles to one devoid of any. "There is no circumstance which has occurred in the course of our political affairs that has given me so much pain as the idea that Mr. Burr might be elevated to the Presidency by the means of the Federalists

Paradoxically, it was the philanthropic effort that most frustrated him and most frequently violated his charitable principles.

When it suited his convenience, Jefferson set aside his small-government credo with compunction.

Science has been effective at furthering our understanding of nature because the scientific ethos is based on three key principles: (1) follow the evidence wherever it leads; (2) if one has a theory, one needs to be willing to try to prove it wrong as much as one tries to prove that it is right; (3) the ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to one's theoretical models.

He believed the definite loss of freedom was worse than the possible loss of life.

Standing up for what you believe in comes has a price but backing down exacts a toll that your soul never stops paying

I succeeded on my own, why can't you? is a dispassionate call to the majority of Native people to forsake one another. The end results is each of us digging our own way out of the hole, filling up the path with dirt as we go. Such things as justice and principles prevent the whole people from becoming dispassionate. Until all of us are free, the few who think they are remain tainted with enslavement.