A Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

General notions are generally wrong.

Mary Wortley Montagu

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General Generally Notions Wrong

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Mary Wortley Montagu
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May 26, 1689 - August 21, 1762

Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral. If mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis than this of expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from and nowise dependent on, their consequences-then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.

Ambrose Bierce

One of the curious effects of a bad hangover is that you think you're wrong whether you are or not. Not wrong in particulars, but wrong in general, wrong about everything.

Jim Harrison

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.

Martin Gore

I think, in general, it's clear that most bad things come from misunderstanding, and communication is generally the way to resolve misunderstandings - and the Web's a form of communications - so it generally should be good.

Tim Berners-Lee

I suppose British people generally, probably have very stereotypical notions about the Irish that go back to Victorian times.

Ardal O'Hanlon

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

Alfred North Whitehead

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

James Madison

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there.

Rumi

General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

Herbert M. Shelton

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

H. Richard Niebuhr

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

Napoleon Bonaparte

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

Vito Acconci

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Stendhal

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I had a lot of wrong preconceived notions about church-y folks, and I'm bad at judging the messenger, not the message.

Walker Hayes

Idleness, ennui, noise, mischief, riot, and a nameless train of mistaken notions of pleasure, are often classed, in a young man's mind, under the general head of liberty.

Maria Edgeworth

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