Claims Quote by Claude C. Hopkins

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called,…

— Samuel Johnson

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

— Arthur Cayley

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little…

— Robert Boyle

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

— David Hume

All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

— Edmund Burke

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

— Ptolemy

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

— James Boswell

...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept…

— Paul Halmos

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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…

— John Keats

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

— Henry Fielding

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

— Ernest Gellner