1,227 Quotes About Principles

  • Author Chris Patten
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    So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

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  • Author Jane Porter
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    Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

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  • Author Jon Postel
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    TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

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  • Author Karl Popper
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    Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement. . . .

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  • Author Michael Polanyi
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    We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

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  • Author Norman Vincent Peale
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    The as if principle works. Act as if you were not afraid and you will become courageous, as if you could and you'll find you can. Act as if you like a person and you'll find a friendship.

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