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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I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

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

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

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

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Don't make a novel to establish a principle of political economy. You will spoil both.

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Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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Behavior, n. Conduct, as determined, not by principle, but by breeding.

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Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on.

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The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

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The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

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

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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

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Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

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If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

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