“Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked.
Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.”
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George Packer14
American journalist and writer 1960Related quotes
“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Bell Hooks book Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
(1984)
Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center
Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888–1957) Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer
Source: Alone (1938), Ch. 12
Context: Part of me remained forever at Latitude 80 degrees 08 minutes South: what survived of my youth, my vanity, perhaps, and certainly my skepticism. On the other hand, I did take away something that I had not fully possessed before: appreciation of the sheer beauty and miracle of being alive, and a humble set of values. All this happened four years ago. Civilization has not altered my ideas. I live more simply now, and with more peace.
R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Welsh poet
But a no-one with a crown of light about his head. He would remember a verse from Pindar: "Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet."
Neb [No-one] (1985)
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Source: Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/feb/22/expenditure-of-the-country in the House of Commons (22 February 1848).
