The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
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 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
“It seems to be a universal generality that while the old want to reminisce, the young are too busy living to bother.” — Doc Sanborn Copy Share Image
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“The certainty of mathematics depends on its complete abstract generality.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to… — Samuel Johnson 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
“The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science; he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as… — Augustus Hare 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
The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When we choose a generality, an idea, a cause, instead of a person, when this becomes the accepted, the required thing to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance. — Anonymous 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
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate. — David Hume Copy Share Image
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
“Praying anywhere" can easily become "praying nowhere", just as "praying anytime" can easily become "praying at no time". Everything in general becomes… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality. — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
“life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.” — Peter L. Bernstein 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
“My potential salvation...must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
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