We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy ,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have… — Gilbert Tennent Copy Share Image
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted,… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Extra features were once considered desirable. We now recognize that 'free' features are rarely free. Any increase in generality that does not… — Boris Beizer Copy Share Image
Campaigns are fun. Campaigns are police escorts, they're airplanes, they're crowds, they're balloons, they're bands, a lot of fun. You speak in… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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