Generalities Quote by Ptolemy Download Open image “Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.” — Ptolemy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generalities Hard Men
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole;… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also,… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars,… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
People are mostly sane enough, of course, in the affairs of common life: the getting of food, shelter, and so on. But the moment… — David Stove Copy Share Image
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Some bolder spirits, indeed, might be expected to despise the cautious moderation of these timid reasoners, and to pronounce decisively, that the Bible was… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself. — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,as would… — David Hume Copy Share Image
No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
Just as a chemist "isolates" a substance from contaminations that distort his view of its nature and effects, so the work of art purifies… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
