Sentence examples for great maxim from inspiring English sources

"Despite his cloak of cynicism … he was as susceptible as most of us are to Carl Jung's great maxim: the desire to reveal is greater than the desire to conceal".

The great maxim, "Unto thine own self be true," is perhaps what is needed now above all else.

One of the Valley's great maxims is Facebook's invitation to "move fast and break things".

"One of his great maxims was if you want to accomplish something," Mr. Fleming said, "don't try to take credit for it".

Marcus Aurelius wrote these great maxims to himself as private admonishments, not intending them to see the light of day.

From this equality flows the obligation to mutual love and the duties that people owe one another, and the great maxims of justice and charity.

They have forgotten the great political maxim: when in doubt, tell the truth.

An immortality that Soviet Russia has heretofore allotted only to Lenin and Marx is bestowed upon the country's greatest writer, Maxim Gorky.

For several mothers, their great-grandmothers' maxim, "Kinder, Küche, Kirche" — children, kitchen, church — holds true, even if, as Mr. Haugeneder says, "increasingly it is a way of life people can't afford".

Were we to judge them by the maxim "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people", they would not emerge well.

This constant tension between vision and possibility accounts for the maxim "Great works of art are never finished; they are abandoned". Later, when their project cuts its way through the tangle of disasters and successes to a conclusion, others can analyze whether or not the right actions were initiated, the best people selected, or the correct information used.