Generality Quotes
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Generality Quotes & Sayings
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Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.
— Kate Bosworth
The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The generality of time, of a family of times, is derived from the fact that all these times are enveloped in a process of nature.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
![Generality Quotes By Arthur Cayley: Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite];](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/generality-quotes-by-arthur-cayley-373815.jpg "Generality Quotes By Arthur Cayley: Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite];")
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 friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.
— Saunders Mac Lane
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
— Jacques Derrida
To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
— Henry Fielding
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
— Augustus Hare
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
— Edmund Burke
The "sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine," was hardly known to him, or to the generality of people, by name.
— Charles Dickens
Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
It seems to be a universal generality that while the old want to reminisce, the young are too busy living to bother.
— Doc Sanborn
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
— Wilfred Owen
The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
— Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
— Marguerite Duras
I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.
— James Boswell
The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
— Ernest Gellner
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
— Felix Frankfurter
