Generalities Quotes
Generalities Quote of the day
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.
Platitudes and generalities roll off the human understanding like water from a duck.
In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.
The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.