Generalities

Meaning

of Generality

Synonyms

Examples

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. Eleanor Roosevelt

We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities. Alfred North Whitehead

The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age. Benjamin N. Cardozo

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so also can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular. Eric Temple Bell

I would ask you to note that generalities concerning the intuition, and attempts to define it are very common, but that a real appreciation of it is rare. Alice Bailey

A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would like to be very rather more special and I would like to be understood in an honest way, rather than in a vague way. Richard Feynman