Famous quotes containing the words ordering and/or principle:
“Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth had need to remember what every name he uses stands for, and to place it accordingly, or else he will find himself entangled in words, as a bird in lime twigs, the more he struggles, the more belimed.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
“He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)