Distinguished Quote by James Boswell

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

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

— David Hume

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates…

— Anonymous

It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which strike them,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Henry Fielding

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

No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health.…

— Claude C. Hopkins

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

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

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

...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

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

— Ptolemy