Basic Truths Quotes

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound.

In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.

I shall use such influence as I have in emphasizing the basic truths common to all denominations, in lowering denominational barriers and in promoting effective cooperation among Christians of whatever creed.

There need to be some absolutes in life.

I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.