General Convention

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or convention:

    Suppose we think while we talk or write—I mean, as we normally do—we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.
    —United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.