Adam Smith Quotes, Artist Quotes, Principles Quotes

The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

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Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable.

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It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

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I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles.

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I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.

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God is not a person. God is an eternal principle.

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Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

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Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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Since everything emanates from God, he is the embodied principle in every being. Each one of us is made from God. Tat twam asi - "You are That One" who is eternally blissful, that one principle manifesting itself as this variety of Creation.

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No science ever defends its first principles.

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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

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Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

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... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

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You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

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