Sentence examples for maxim that is from inspiring English sources

It's a maxim that is the stuff of science, the foundation stone of an approach to discovery that delivers reliable, if provisional, knowledge with incredible consistency.

"Logic, having been invented by the Greeks in the Northern Hemisphere, does not apply south of the Equator," was a maxim that is still frequently cited, along with, "It is less important to find solutions than scapegoats".

In politics, there is a truism that you should be careful who and what you follow on stage, a maxim that is about to land on the Twin Cites with significant force in the wake of the much ballyhooed Democratic convention in Denver.

Many commentators have acknowledged the fact that the usual courtroom maxim that is "to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" is not so easy to apply in practicality.

She said she was writing the play around the maxim that "being in love was like being in Auschwitz".

Common sense dictates that drinking and swimming pools don't mix – a maxim that's hard to argue with, unless its early October and you're in Manchester.

BACK in 2004, as Google prepared to go public, Larry Page and Sergey Brin celebrated the maxim that was supposed to define their company: "Don't be evil".

As for Google, Quentin Hardy writes that it has been questioned over the ethics of a number of its decisions, with the added burden of the maxim that was supposed to guide its business: "don't be evil".

There is a maxim that's often been invoked in war - to save a city, you have to destroy it.

Every company today is a tech company, a maxim that was proven out today when one of the world's oldest and biggest art auction houses acquired an AI startup.

Tom mentions a toe-curling maxim that was used: "Isolate, Inebriate, and Penetrate".