Generalities Quotes

31 Generalities quotes by 28 unique authors

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
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football. — Knute Rockne
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
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless. — Zubin Mehta
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
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
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
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
Generalities are intellectually necessary evils. — Aldous Huxley
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
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck — Claude C. Hopkins
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations. — Hermann Weyl
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. — Rufus Choate
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary... — Alberto Manguel
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of… — Alfred North Whitehead
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. — Alphonse de Lamartine
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? — Howard Nemerov

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