Generalisers Quotes & Sayings

If you can't define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can you really tell anyone else what it is. There is, in fact, no formal difference between inability to define and stupidity. — Robert M. Pirsig

Nobody drowns by falling in the water ... but by staying there. — Shiv Khera

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true. — Swami Vivekananda

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. — Benjamin Franklin

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital? — Timothy Leary

It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television. — Chaz Bundick

Tacky T-shirts that said things like "My crazy Grandma traveled to India and all I got was this lousy T-shirt." They — Chris Colfer

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. — George Herbert Mead

Was after all a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only by a vigorous jerk. — Henry James

The Spirit of the Lord is with them that fear him. — Joanna Southcott

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns. — Kareena Kapoor Khan

Pray that ye enter not into temptation. — Anonymous

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States. — Zbigniew Brzezinski

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly. — Dev Anand

The highest type of intelligence, says Aristotle, manifests itself in an ability to see connections where no one has seen them before, that is, to think analogically. — J.M. Coetzee