(1598 quotes found)
“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”
Dale Carnegie
“I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.”
Stephen Wright
“I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.”
Dave Barry
“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
William Blake
“It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.”
Diane Arbus
“I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.”
Rene Descartes
“Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life”
Fernand Braudel
“Hence that general is skilful in attack whose opponent does not know what to defend; and he is skilful in defense whose opponent does not know what to attack.”
Sun Tzu
“The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...”
Richard Feynman
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