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In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane (General Quotes)
Of course you keep telling yourself there’s something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn’t be that hard. That’s the general drift (General Quotes)
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd (General Quotes)
Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn’t see why anyone else should (General Quotes)
You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general (General Quotes)
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death (General Quotes)
Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need? (General Quotes)
Has it not... invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice? (General Quotes)
If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if his orders are clear, and the soldiers nevertheless disobey, then it is the fault of their officers (General Quotes)
Too frequent rewards indicate that the general is at the end of his resources; too frequent punishments that he is in acute distress (General Quotes)
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed (General Quotes)
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices... rather than to root them out (General Quotes)
A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest (General Quotes)
When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers and men, and the ranks are formed in a slovenly haphazard manner, the result is utter disorganization (General Quotes)
Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources (General Quotes)
What enables the wise sovereign and the good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge (General Quotes)
When a general, unable to estimate the enemy’s strength, allows an inferior force to engage a larger one, or hurls a weak detachment against a powerful one, and neglects to place picked soldiers in the front rank, the result must be rout (General Quotes)
It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order (General Quotes)
The natural formation of the country is the soldier’s best ally; but a power of estimating the adversary, of controlling the forces of victory, and of shrewdly calculating difficulties, dangers and distances, constitutes the test of a great general (General Quotes)
These are six ways of courting defeat, which must be carefully noted by the general who has attained a responsible post (General Quotes)
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted (General Quotes)
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents (General Quotes)
The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion (General Quotes)
The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time (General Quotes)
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual (General Quotes)
Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them (General Quotes)
Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise, for the result is waste of time and general stagnation (General Quotes)
Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence (General Quotes)
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants (General Quotes)
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them (General Quotes)