"The generality of virtuous women are like hidden……" — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

More Generality Quotes

This quote is filed under Generality Quotes, one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
• For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. — George Ade
• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic… — Richard Courant
• We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. — Edmund Burke
• Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality… — Arthur Cayley
• ...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every… — Paul Halmos
• This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane… — Harry Reasoner
• It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the… — David Hume
• Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find:… — Anatole Broyard
• Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality — David Hilbert
• I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality… — Wilfred Owen

See all 45 Generality Quotes »