Framework Quote by Henry David Thoreau

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

— Holly Black

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

— Barbara Corcoran

“A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.”

— Michael Oakeshott

I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t…

— Jon Krakauer

After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it…

— Terry Brooks

A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either…

— James Bryant Conant

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But after I clearly understood this relationship, I…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

— Carl Sagan

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

— Swami Vivekananda

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

— Winston Churchill

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on…

— Herodotus