Application Quote by William Strunk, Jr

The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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

— Winston Churchill

“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate with mature…

— Neil Postman

A work should convey its entire meaning by itself, imposing it on the spectator even before he knows what the subject is.

— Marcel Proust

“With this approach, every message should have one central idea, application, insight, or principle that serves as the glue to hold the other parts…

— Andy Stanley

Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at…

— Amos Oz

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

“From a letter to Barrett H.Clark, 4 May 1918(LL,II,pp.204-5): "my attitude to subjects and expressions, the angles of vision, my methods of composition will,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”

— William Strunk Jr

“The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a…

— Flannery O'Connor

“(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)”

— Rebecca Goldstein

“In short, it is much easier to see a thing through from the point of view of abstract principle than from that of concrete…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer