Particulars Quotes

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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very… — Joseph Addison
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for… — William Blake
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding… — Bob Dole
When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. — E. W. Howe
There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less… — Jack Nicklaus
One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but… — Jim Harrison
Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars. — Heraclitus
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of… — Leonardo da Vinci
No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions,… — Francis Bacon
In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to… — David Hume
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
Gratitude consists of a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitudes of God's gifts, taken one by one. It… — Henry Edward Manning
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but… — John Stuart Mill
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars. — Heraclitus
This new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its… — Piet Mondrian
Facts and particulars annoy me, — Clarice Lispector
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals. — Plato
What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a… — Andromeda Romano-Lax

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