7 Quotes on Maxims

• These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.

  Author: Michael Polanyi

• Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

  Author: James Mackintosh

• No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  Author: William James

• In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

  Author: George Eliot

• The maxims of men reveal their characters.

  Author: Luc Clapier

• I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

  Author: Miguel Cervantes

• It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

  Author: Aristotle

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