Chiefs Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth…

— Anonymous

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents…

— Bertrand Russell

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

— Aleister Crowley

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

— Winston Churchill

“To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities…

— C.S. Lewis

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

— Stephen King

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

— Thomas Jefferson

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

— James G. Frazer

“It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.”

— Winston Churchill

The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.

— C. S. Lewis