General Quotes - page 2

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. (Thomas Malthus)
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I think game theory creates ideas that are important in solving and approaching conflict in general. View quote
Robert Aumann
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. View quote
Ezra Pound
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. View quote
Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. View quote
Edmund Burke
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. View quote
John Ruskin
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. (Henry Miller)
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. View quote
Robert E. Howard
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. View quote
Iris Murdoch
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. View quote
J. L. Austin
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. View quote
Herbert Hoover
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars. View quote
William Blake
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. View quote
Denis Diderot
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. View quote
Scott Adams
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. View quote
Lorraine Hansberry
A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular. (Mikhail Lermontov)
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. View quote
Marie Curie
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. View quote
Alan Turing
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
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