Principle Quotes

Discover the best quotes about Principle. This collection showcases wisdom and insights on Principle from various authors and personalities.

The wisdom of God and the knowledge of His spiritual principles are accessible to the sons of God
Union with [True] Knowledge is "Principle' [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is "non principle' [absence of principle].
If you don't have the faith in principles and you don't believe in the absolutism of the truth then you won't be able achieve anything in life.
There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through —Gnan' (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle.
Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
Ideas and principles that do harm are, as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions.
The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.
Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.
Everywhere the basis of principle is tradition.
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help.
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.
Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
We speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishings better.