Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths. - Stephen Covey
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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. - Immanuel Kant
There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago. - George Lucas
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.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. - Victor Hugo
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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.
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. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
