Axiom Quotes
Old rules, tested and sometimes overturned.
An axiom is treated here as a rule worth questioning as much as trusting, from baseball's claim that repeating a title is the hardest feat, to a pointed rejection of "truth is the best policy" as too simple a guide. It shares ground with our Assumed quotes page.
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.
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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.
I have found - and tennis may be the greatest manifestation of it - Americans have become more international in taste. Remember the old axiom that you have to have American players for Americans to be interested? And in tennis,...
Art Quotes
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.
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.
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.
Assumed Quotes
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
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.
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Other quotes apply the word to systems of proof and disproof, or to outdated ideas about who counts as a genuine tennis star. For more on belief and reasoning, see our Art quotes and Baseball quotes collections.
