General Quotes

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. (Samuel Johnson)
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know. View quote
Noam Chomsky
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day. View quote
Herodotus
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. View quote
Sun Tzu
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. View quote
Sydney Smith
It is easier to know man in general than to know one man. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV. View quote
Erma Bombeck
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. View quote
Pablo Picasso
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. View quote
Walter Bagehot
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. (Mikhail Bakunin)
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. View quote
Jane Austen
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. View quote
Sun Tzu
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. View quote
Susan Orlean
The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since. View quote
Charles de Lint
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. View quote
William Hazlitt
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. (Douglas MacArthur)
The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
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. View quote
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