Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

William Zinsser

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Wang Jianlin

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

W. Clement Stone

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.

William Lloyd Garrison

There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.

Walter Savage Landor

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

Tristan Tzara

In principle, I am against principles.

William Hazlitt

It is a false principle that because we are entirely occupied with ourselves, we must equally occupy the thoughts of others. The contrary inference is the fair one.

Richard Wright

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

David Hume

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

John Stuart Mill

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

Max Stirner

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Michael Jackson

You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it.

Hugh Kingsmill

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Max Mayfield

I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same.