1,227 Quotes About Principles

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles.

There's also a part of me that's self-destructive, and another part that's a hero who's going to stand up for a principle.

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are cheap; you make them because they're right.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual.