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Generalities Quotes

We think in generalities, but we live in detail Picture Quote #1

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing Picture Quote #1

Generalities don’t count and won’t help you in football Picture Quote #1

Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck Picture Quote #1

Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations Picture Quote #1

Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary Picture Quote #1

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Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself Picture Quote #1

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It’s not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That’s butterfly collecting Picture Quote #1

Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent Picture Quote #1

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What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely... Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it Picture Quote #1

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances Picture Quote #1

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history Picture Quote #1

If you’re doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you’re talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there’s enormous range there, and no real easy generalities Picture Quote #1

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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular Picture Quote #1

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little Picture Quote #1

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We think in generalities, but we live in detail (Generalities Quotes) Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing (Generalities Quotes) Generalities don’t count and won’t help you in football (Generalities Quotes) Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck (Generalities Quotes) Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations (Generalities Quotes) Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary (Generalities Quotes) Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself (Generalities Quotes) An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It’s not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That’s butterfly collecting. (Generalities Quotes) Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them. (Generalities Quotes) 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. (Generalities Quotes) 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 (Generalities Quotes) We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent (Generalities Quotes) What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely... Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There is so much more potency to be found in detail than generalities, but most souls cannot train themselves to sit still for it (Generalities Quotes) The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age (Generalities Quotes) 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 (Generalities Quotes) No organism can afford to be conscious of matters with which it could deal at unconscious levels. Broadly, we can afford to sink those sorts of knowledge which continue to be true regardless of changes in the environment, but we must maintain in an accessible place all those controls of behavior which must be modified for every instance. The economics of the system, in fact, pushes organisms toward sinking into the unconscious those generalities of relationship which remain permanently true and toward keeping within the conscious the pragmatic of particular instances (Generalities Quotes) Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history (Generalities Quotes) If you’re doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you’re talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there’s enormous range there, and no real easy generalities (Generalities Quotes) The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular (Generalities Quotes) Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? (Generalities Quotes) 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 (Generalities Quotes) 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 (Generalities Quotes) Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little (Generalities Quotes)