They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods… — Thomas Little Heath Copy Share Image
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck. — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
