I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific…

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

— James Boswell

...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept…

— Paul Halmos

“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to do, then…

— Madeleine L'Engle

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than…

— John Keats

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

— Zig Ziglar

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are…

— Augustus Hare

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

— C. S. Lewis

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

— Henry Fielding

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called,…

— Samuel Johnson

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

— Ptolemy