(1619 quotes found)
“Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept”
Carl Becker
“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
“I want to be cautious here, because Africa is a hugely complex continent and you can't really generalize about it.”
Stephen Lewis
“While the Pope owns 51% of General Motors And the stock exchange is the only thing he's qualified to quote us”
George Harrison
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato”
Alfred North Whitehead
“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.”
Denis Diderot
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail”
“I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
“Debts and lies are generally mixed together”
Francois Rabelais
“"Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!"[Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]”
Ethan Allen
