Foundations Quotes

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of happiness.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

Democracy is built from the bottom up, one step at a time.

I believe that a newspaper is a great civic asset and that ownership is best in the hands of foundations or wealthy families that want to own it for reasons other than maximizing profits. I also believe newspapers should remain in local hands.

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.

Until you go through a bereavement, you don't know how you will cope. What we have found out is that life is completely different. The foundations that you have been building all your life are knocked down.

The principal foundations of all states are good laws and good arms; and there cannot be good laws where there are not good arms.

It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

We feel that we can do a great deal of good. We want to eliminate malaria in this generation.

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

Whoever says he is starting from a given in nature may be right, and so is he who says he is starting from nothing!

The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

I wouldn't be a very good writer if someone hadn't taught me how to read.

Nature has given you everything: you have got unlimited resources. The foundations of your State have been laid, and it is now for you to build, and build as quickly and as well as you can. So go ahead and I wish you God speed.

Society is founded on hero-worship.

I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.