John C. Calhoun

It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.

American Statesman

Alexander Hamilton

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

American Politician

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Roman Statesman

Henri Frederic Amiel

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Swiss Philosopher

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

British Writer

Julian Baggini

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

British Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Scottish Writer

Immanuel Kant

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

German Philosopher

Wayne Dyer

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

American Psychologist

Luc de Clapiers

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

French Writer

Maxims often capture wise lessons about behavior in a memorable way.

Behavioral Wisdom

Maxims can reflect values and beliefs of cultures and societies.

Cultural Values

Maxims may offer advice subtly, inspiring reflection and better choices.

Advice in Disguise

In legal contexts, maxims guide decision-making and interpret laws.

Legal Guidance

Philosophical maxims often serve as starting points for deeper discussion.

Foundation of Reasoning

 We just jam a whole bunch of facts down their throats over here and then they puke it up on an exam over here and everybody goes home with no added intellectual heft whatsoever. This can't possibly continue to go on. So what do we do? Well the geneticists, I have to say, have an interesting maxim they live by.

Stuart Firestein: The...

 we have to design a rule or a maxim that we could will to be universal. Meaning, we have to imagine, what if everyone did what we're about to do, what would happen to the world? Would it be OK or would it get all screwed up? So the maxim I'm designing here is something like,

How Ethics Can Help You...

 to deepen our perspective. His finest accomplishment, though, may be his maxim, casting the search for truth beyond our senses and our current understanding as the pursuit of the beauty of the as yet unknown. Beautiful is what we see, more beautiful is what we know,

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 shouldn't accept even a one in a billion risk that human extinction would foreclose this immense potential. Some scenarios that have been envisaged may indeed be science fiction, but others may be disquietingly real. It's an important maxim that the unfamiliar

Martin Rees: Can we...

 and you can pick it up. I'll just go one step further. So, here is -- here is a couple pieces. Move them together, and now this is an active piece. You can really get inside somebody's perception and have them experience something. It's like the old maxim of

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 kidnapping in brazil he was consultant in innovation in criminality for the most important drug dealers gang in rail he was doing 14 years in the prison in the last region we met in the maxim secret vision and we decided to start a

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 so you have meaning in matter - we're not monkeys floating through space on the false maxim that testable it's not measurable it's not provable it's not real how old are you guys just out of curiosity do you think it's a growing

Flat Earth vs. Round...

 as a probable carcinogen, because of a disruption of your sleep-wake rhythms. So you may have heard of that old maxim that you can sleep when you're dead. Well, I'm being quite serious now -- it is mortally unwise advice.

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 to come tactics and strategy in the Civil War had not kept up with advances in weaponry there's an old military maxim that says generals always fight

Winston Groom: The...

 The maxim, "Know thyself" has been around since the ancient Greeks. Some attribute this golden world knowledge to Plato, others to Pythagoras.

Maxim

A short statement that expresses a truth or a rule about how to behave.

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A founding or guiding principle or rule that is used to set standards or make judgments.

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