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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

“The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Hard Care Principles Economy Economic Hard Truths Specifics Doctoring Tender Loving Care

Author:Jeffrey Sachs

“That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.”

Ifs Knows Certain Decision Principles Paper Commit Narrative Inconsistency

Author:Matt Stone

“If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.”

Ifs Knows Believe Principles Sky Don't Believe Strings Pulling Arbitrary Stressful Benevolent

Author:Michael Shannon

“Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of that wisdom which is revealed to all: that we should know and praise God through His creation and that by means of the visible world we should understand whence we came, what we are, for what purpose we were made and where we are going. On the contrary, they travel through this present age in darkness... with... ignorance of God.”

“I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.”

People Knows Want Care Principles Know How Vote Democratic Haiti

Author:Jean-Bertrand Aristide

“What the members of the Church need, more than anything else, are strong testimonies of Jesus Christ and the gospel He restored. They need to know. And they need to know that they know. This is the best protection against the tsunami of temptations and the waves of immorality that crash against us. Perhaps this is just another reason why the first principle of the gospel is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ!”

Knows Needs Firsts Reason Jesus Strong Christ Church Lord Principles Members Jesus Christ Wave Protection Temptation Reason Why Crash Testimony Immorality Lord Jesus Christ Tsunami

Author:John Bytheway

“I know that there is one God in heaven, the Father of all humanity, and heaven is therefore one. I know that there is one sun in the sky, which gives light to all the world. As there is unity in God, and unity in the light, so is there unity in the principles of freedom. Wherever it is broken, wherever a shadow is cast upon the sunny rays of the sun of liberty, there is always danger of free principles everywhere in the world.”

Knows World Giving Light Humanity Father Heaven Liberty Principles Sun Sky Danger Broken Shadow Unity Casts Rays Sunny

Author:Lajos Kossuth

“An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.”

Knows Should Mind Art Artist Principles Taste Models Advantage Excellence Painter Assistance Good Art Good Artist

Book:Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

Source: Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts, delivered at the Royal Academy. With a portrait

“The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.”

Knows Firsts May Culture Principles Modern Wind Boundaries Connectedness No Boundaries Whirlwind Modern Culture

Author:Mu Xin

“The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.”

Knows Men Ideas Science Imagination Existence Principles Imagine Conditions Events He Man Contrary New Ideas

Book:The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

Source: The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics

“I know well the coequal role of the Congress in our constitutional process. I love the House of Representatives. I revere the traditions of the Senate despite my too-short internship in that great body. As President, within the limits of basic principles, my motto toward the Congress is communication, conciliation, compromise, and cooperation.”

“To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.”

Knows Age Loses Principles Focus Groups Willing Understood Conviction Historian Approval Popularity Contests Polls Posterity Deserving Adviser True Meaning John Kennedy Focus Groups

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.”

Knows Principles Ideals Nationality Great Idea

Author:Marcus Garvey

“I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.”

People Thinking Knows Long Strong Principles Long Time Prepared Committed Conviction Public Life

Author:Malcolm Turnbull

“I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk.”

Knows Men Mean Long Stills Would Be Principles Devil Drunk Sober

Book:God in the Dock

Source: God in the Dock

“Unless we realize that the essence of Nazism is also an attempt to solve a universal problem of Western civilization - that of the industrial society - and that the basic principles on which the Nazis base this attempt are also in no way confined to Germany, we do not know what we fight for or what we fight against... The war is being fought for the structure of industrial society - its basic principles, its purposes, and its institutions.”

“Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.”

Ifs Knows Doe Ends Law Next Justice Principles Practice Objects Ignorance Equal Noble Profession Selfishness Streams Ministry Noble Profession

Book:The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“The highest truth is daiji, translated as dai jiki in Chinese scriptures. This is the subject of the question the emperor asked Bodhidharma: "What is the First Principle?" Bodhidharma said, "I don't know." "I don't know" is the First Principle.”

Knows Firsts Said Principles Subjects Truth Is Highest Scripture Chinese Emperor

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“Brethren, understand that the gospel is a gospel which brings a present salvation; and try to feel that it is not presumption, but simply out of the very fundamental principle of it, when you are not afraid to say, "I know that my Redeemer is yonder, and I know that He loves me.”

Knows Feels Trying Principles Fundamentals Salvation Not Afraid Brethren Presumption Redeemer Fundamental Principles

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Y'know, Nature's unpredictable -- that's why we had to tame her. Maybe we went too far, but in principle we made the right decision.”

Knows Made Nature Decision Principles Unpredictable Right Decision

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Real Courses Asks Simple Mistake Principles Subjects Ignorance Ass Explanation Candidates Subtle Now And Then Counting Ambiguous Conducting Thesis Nodding

Author:Robertson Davies

“I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.”

Knows Men Littles Sometimes Desire Principles Knowledge Useless Superficial Maxims Superficial Knowledge

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.”

Ifs Knows Enough Sound Poor Powerful Principles Support Path Too Much Terrible Creatures Weak Complicated Confusion Judgement Spiders Creeps

Book:Popular Scientific Lectures

Source: Popular Scientific Lectures

“I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute.”

“Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it's not the destination, it's the journeyto get there. It's a way of thinking and it's an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it. I think once we stop asking questions like "what is the age of the universe," or "how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level," once we stop asking questions like that, we're dead.”

“In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.”

Knows Enough Use Individual Principles Know How Knowing Speech Stronger Freedom Of Speech Individual Freedom

Book:Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age

Source: Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age

“Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask CNN, ABC, FOX, The London Times, or the Australia Times. Let’s not ask non-Muslims how Muslim women feel, how they live, what are their principles, and what are their challenges. If you want to be fair, ask a Muslim woman. Ask my wife. Ask my mother. Ask a Muslim woman who knows her religion, who has a relationship with her Creator, who is stable in her society, understands her responsibilities. Ask her.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Mother Asks Challenges Responsibility Principles Wife Fairs Creator My Wife London Australia Stable Toms Foxes Cnn Barbara Muslim Women

Author:Khalid Yasin

“Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.”

“A great deal has been written about personal power by Carlos Casteneda, and I find his first four books valuable. Of the experiences themselves, who knows? But the principles that are presented are quite valuable for one who seeks power.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Book Deals Principles Four Written Valuable Mysticism Personal Power

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Such true worship will stand the test of Christ's great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian's life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.”

Knows World Shows Christian Heaven Christ Walks Principles Worship Tests And Love Mark Fruit Folks Lifting Love And Fear Sanctify Walking With God True Worship

Author:J. C. Ryle

“When we see social relationships controlled everywhere by the principles which Jesus illustrated in life -- trust, love, mercy, and altruism -- then we shall know that the kingdom of God is here.”

Knows Jesus Social Principles Mercy Kingdoms Controlled Altruism Kingdom Of God Trust Love Social Relationships

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.”

“A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.”

Knows Men Persons Use Order Common Principles Know How Virtue Riches Wealthy Estates Disadvantages Virtue And Happiness

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.”

Knows Loses Music Principles Pure Relentless Geometry

Book:Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Source: Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

“One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.”

Knows Firsts Principles Perseverance Stubbornness

Book:The Rest of My Life

Source: The Rest of My Life

“To sacrifice the principles of manners, which require compassion and respect, and bat people over the head with their ignorance of etiquette rules they cannot be expected to know is both bad manners and poor etiquette. That social climbers and twits have misused etiquette throughout history should not be used as an argument for doing away with it.”

Source: Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility

“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man like us.... Here, then, is eternal life - to know the only wise and true God; and you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves... the same as all Gods have done before you.”

Knows Men Firsts Done Character Heaven Secret Principles Wise Eternal Certainty Eternal Life Exalted True God Character Of God

Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.

“If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?”

Ifs Knows Next Principles

Author:David Wessel

“You know the public is more easily swayed by persons than by principles.”

Knows Persons Principles

Book:All this and Heaven too

Source: All this and Heaven too

“I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.”

Knows Writing Suffering Moral Principles Reader Moral Principles

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal owership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never really get to know their sons and daughters very well.”

Knows Men Wells Children Responsibility Principles Son Civilization Daughter Son And Daughter Responsibility For Children

Author:Phyllis Chesler

“The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of our views and opinions. It is this which gives the writer a vast superiority, as to the accuracy and extent of his conceptions, over the mere talker. No one can ever hope to know the principles of any art or science thoroughly who does not write as well as read upon the subject.”

“But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.”

Knows Firsts Country Action Interest Principles Unjust

Book:Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek

Source: Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Dryden's Corrected from the Greek

“I liked the military life. They teach you self-sufficiency early on. I always say that I learned most of what I know about leadership in the Marine Corps. Certain basic principles stay with you - sometimes consciously, mostly unconsciously.”

Knows Self Sometimes Certain Principles Teach Military Marine Marine Corps Self Sufficiency Sufficiency Basic Principles Military Life

Author:Raymond Kelly

“My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.”

“There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice.”

Knows Certain Religious Existence Leader Principles Influence Modern Duty Determine Noble Expected Our Time Cowardice Religious Faith Public Life Schizophrenic Modern Politics

Author:Stephen Mansfield

“Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience.”

Knows Happens Powerful Principles Worry Behave Most Powerful Users Consistency Usability

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do not know the exact nature of every component of the universe, the basic principles of physics seem to apply out to the farthest horizon visible to us today.”

Knows Seems Today Universe Principles Mystery Atheism Positive Atheism Physics Mysterious Visible Horizon Components Basic Principles

Book:Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

Source: Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe

“The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.”