Able Quote by R. Buckminster Fuller

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

— Winston Churchill

The knowledge of all things is possible

— Leonardo da Vinci

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

— Ernest Holmes

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“just because universal concepts result only from thinking away and leaving out actual and existing determinations, and are therefore the emptier the more universal…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

— Stephen Covey

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

— Winston Churchill

For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried…

— Aristotle

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications.

— Henry David Thoreau

General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

— William Blake

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our…

— C. V. Wedgwood

For not all things are practicable on identical principles

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio