16 Axiom Quotes for You to Enjoy

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur Conan Doyle

Wisdom Little Things Long Important Mine Most Been Infinitely The Most Important Little Things Axiom

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Robert Caro

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I am not a mathematician, but I was aware that for centuries, mathematics was considered the queen of the sciences because it claimed certainty. It was grounded on some fundamental certainties - axioms - that led to others. Tom Stoppard

Mathematics Queen I Am Others Considered Claimed Some Because Sciences Am Led Mathematician Centuries Certainties Certainty Grounded Aware Fundamental Axiom

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words. Gretchen Rubin

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When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true. Andrew Motion

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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. Aneurin Bevan

Experience Will Rule Industrially Politically Ages Enforced Who Axiom

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting. Fernand Leger

Truth Understanding Painting Assume Validity Recognized Must General Dogma Axiom

Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof. Gottfried Leibniz

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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things. Gustave Flaubert

Art Good You Pure Style Bad Neither Seeing Absolute Point Could Point Of View Almost Nor Subject Subjects Itself Irrelevant Establish Being Manner View Things Axiom

We can agree that keeping serious criminals in prison is an effective means of preserving public safety, but we must also recognize that the axiom of 'putting people in jail and throwing away the key' does not apply to all offenders universally and can actually be counterproductive. Ken Cuccinelli

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I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines. Leandra Medine

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The principal axiom in their theory was: Everything can be proved, and everything can be disproved; and in the process, one must profit as much from the folly of others, and from his own superiority, as he can. Moses Mendelssohn

Own Profit Others Everything Must Folly Superiority He Principal Proved His Process Much Theory Disproved Axiom

Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance. Sherwin B. Nuland

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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat. Walter Alston

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