Top 110 Axiom Quotes & Sayings

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

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

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

The two basic maxims of the so-called historical criticism are the postulate of the common and the axiom of the ordinary. Postulate of the common: everything really great, good, and beautiful, is improbable, since it is extraordinary and therefore at least suspect. Axiom of the ordinary: our conditions and environment must have existed everywhere, for they are really so natural.

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

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

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.

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that :;:;:;:;:;:; We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.

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.

Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.

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

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

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

The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.

For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

you may take it as an axiom that you cannot profit in Wall Street by continuously doing the obvious or the popular thing

If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.

Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.

The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

The Axiom of Choice is necessary to select a set from an infinite number of socks, but not an infinite number of shoes.

As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground similar to that on which Egoists refuse to admit the axiom of Rational Benevolence. If the Utilitarian has to answer the question, 'Why should I sacrifice my own happiness for the greater happiness of another?' it must surely be admissible to ask the Egoist 'Why should I sacrifice a present pleasure for a greater one in the future? Why should I concern myself about my own future feelings any more than about the feelings of other persons?'

I've always found the Write-What-You-Know axiom small and stifling.

We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.

For somebody who's never run for office before, Donald Trump understands that old axiom, "Define yourself before you're defined."

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

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

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know anything about either spirit or matter.

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

For Stirner, the social axiom of conservative, liberal, and socialist schools of political thought alike is in itself repressive: it disguises as potentially redemptive an order whose central function is inhibitory of the individual's interests.

I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less "creativity" the director need exert.

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.