General Quotes - page 4

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . (George Bernard Shaw)
General relativity is certainly a very beautiful theory, but how does one judge the elegance of physical theories generally? View quote
Roger Penrose
My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, "Oh God, I've got to do this today.”. View quote
Richard Branson
I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. View quote
Steven Wright
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. View quote
Marvin Minsky
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. View quote
Marvin Minsky
But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people. View quote
Stephen Harper
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. View quote
Joseph Addison
I had become interested in economics, an interest that was transformed into a lifetime dedication when I met with the mathematical theory of general economic equilibrium. View quote
Gérard Debreu
Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. (Ernest Hemingway)
I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality. View quote
Donald Judd
No rule is so general, which admits not some exception. View quote
Robert Burton
In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams. View quote
Joseph Campbell
There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general. View quote
David Lee Roth
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. View quote
William Kingdon Clifford
Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. View quote
Jules Verne
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. View quote
Jane Austen
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Thomas Hobbes)
Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms. View quote
Raymond Williams
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. View quote
William Blake
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. View quote
Maximilien Robespierre
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. View quote
Denis Diderot
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