Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Should Have Quotes, Principles Quotes

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

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Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end.

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Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

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

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The Tao's principle is spontaneity.

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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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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

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As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

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I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself.

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

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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity.

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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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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path.

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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

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The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

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The Tao principle is what happens of itself.

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We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

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