Generalities Quotes
31 quotes by 28 authors
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Another diversity of Methods is according to the subject or matter which is handled; for there is a great difference in delivery of the Mathematics,…
— Francis Bacon
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
— Oscar Wilde
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Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
— Knute Rockne
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In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
— Zubin Mehta
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When we deal in generalities, we shall never succeed. When we deal in specifics, we shall rarely have a failure. When performance is measured, performance…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the…
— John F. Kennedy
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History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with…
— Howard Nemerov
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Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because…
— Paul Lynde
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
— Aldous Huxley
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You can't wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough…
— Janette Rallison
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Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck
— Claude C. Hopkins
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Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the…
— Daniel Starch
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities…
— Eric Temple Bell
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Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations…
— William J. Brennan
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What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely....Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
— William Hazlitt
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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're…
— Jim Henson
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Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
— Hermann Weyl
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Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
— Rufus Choate
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