Top 117 Universality Quotes & Sayings

I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

Universality has been the key enabler of innovation on the Web and will continue to be so in the future.

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal audience of fellow composers. His message is not devoid of universality but its universality is disembodied and anonymous. While the artist's communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modified, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture. The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and also no stronger link with the world than his work.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

There is a kind of universality in the human condition, masculine or feminine. That's one thing I continue to believe.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Consciousness shakes off the littleness of being and finds the infinite space in which all things have a place. Be in your universality.

The universality of 'Saaho' is what appealed to me as a filmmaker.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

I believe in the universality of freedom and therefore want to be involved in the freedom movement.

The Orenda is a powerful story from history, folklore and the imagination, based on the universality of human cruelty, superstition and perseverance. Wonderful writing.

The universality of tattooing is a curious subject for speculation.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality

The freedom movement is built around the principle of democracy and universality of freedom.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.

It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

As a biblical inerrantist, I believe that what the Bible teaches is true and bow to the text, including its teaching about the Flood and its universality.

The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all.

The universality of Islam is not uniformity, it is unity with diversity.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Painting, because of its universality, becomes speculation.

The version of cosmopolitanism that I favor is exactly about balancing universality and difference. Many people who believe rightly in universality, want, wrongly, I think, to impose their vision of the world on others. They think not just that there are universal truths but that they already know what they are. And they don't think they have anything to learn, as a result, from others. They don't converse, they try to convert.

The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.

A nation isthe universality of citizens speaking the same tongue.

When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.

Just as you can accept Miss Marple going to tea with the vicar, there's no reason why Long Island can't have a universality to it.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. Universality, I think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

Ultimately, I want to prepare food that will be recognized equally in Tokyo, London, and Paris. I am after that universality, that transcendence.

What the gears cannot do the computer might. The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate

The principal role of a logo is to identify, and simplicity is its means... Its effectiveness depends on distinctiveness, visibility, adaptability, memorability, universality, and timelessness.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

It should not be strange that the values cherished by all the three major religions are the same, since they originate from a common source. For example, Islam, the predominant religion in the Middle East, accepts as an integral part of its religious teachings both the Old and the New Testaments. If this commonality of moral traditions among the world's major religions does not say something about the universality of religion, it does say something about the universality of mankind.

There is a universality to comedy.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

I never give too much thought to the idea of universality.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

There's always to me a universality - one of the things I learned early on as a journalist and a writer is that there's a universality in specifics. The more specific you get, the more universal it can be.

Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.

He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.