Accidents Quote by 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

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

— James Boswell

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

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

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

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

— Ptolemy

...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