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“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.”

Needs Turns Realizing Principles Struggle Plans Perspective Gains Salvation Our Time Savior Time Of Need Plan Of Salvation Positive Perspective

Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

“Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.”

People Principles Circumstances Gains Hearing Ministers

Book:For God Alone

Source: For God Alone

“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.”

May Company Principles Practice Dangerous Capable Consequence Gains Trade Extraordinary Occasions Strict Banking Speculation Flattering Strict Rules

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.”

Needs Principles Information Source Gains Linked Knowledge And Experience Knowledge Experience

Author:Albert Einstein

“Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.”

Ideas Country Political Term Principles Gains Indigenous Short Term Discarded Guiding Principles

Author:Barbara Jordan

“The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by laying down, of life out of death is what the Bible teaches, and the people who have believed it enough to live it out in simple, humble, day-by-day practice are people who have found the gain, the joy, the getting, the fulfillment, the life.”

People Giving Enough Joy Found Loss Simple Principles Teach Practice Sorrow Gains Humble Fulfillment Laying Down

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.”

Knows Feels Country Spirit Passion Business Principles Acceptance Gains Selfish Commerce

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life - and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and willingness to serve. Education must have its roots in moral principles. If we lose sight of that fact in our attempt to match our educational system against that of the materialists, we shall have lost far more than we could possibly gain.”

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.”

Men Two States Force Liberty Principles Exercise Authority Mass Ethics Gains Essence Cruelty Obedience Motive Consent Accord Subjection

Author:Simone Weil