Generality Quotes

45 quotes by 42 authors

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in… — Thomas Sydenham
We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. — Tim Berners-Lee
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras
The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to… — Robert Boyle
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality. — Thomas Cech
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The… — Hugo Black
The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my… — John Keats
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity. — Felix Frankfurter
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene. — Jacques Derrida
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt… — Augustus Hare
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions -… — Will Self
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with… — Edward Witten
Donâ€™t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific. — Zig Ziglar
Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I… — Jane Austen
I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work,… — F. Sionil JosÃ©
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance. — Douglas Hofstadter
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and… — Sydney J. Harris

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