Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Principles
Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. – G. W. F. Hegel Category: Principles
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. – Henrik Ibsen Category: Principles
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. – Shelby Foote Category: Libraries
The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. – Richard Dawkins Category: Science
