Generals Quotes

Quotations list about generals, admirals and colonel citing Carl Jung, Pablo Picasso and Henry David Thoreau

  • The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

    — Carl Jung
    48
  • When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

    — Pablo Picasso
    47
  • Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.

    — Henry David Thoreau
    21
  • In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

    — John Ruskin
    18
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  • My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general.

    If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

    — Pablo Picasso
    16
  • Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

    — Julius Caesar
    12
  • A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

    — Alexander Graham Bell
    10
  • In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

    — Mao Zedong
    9
  • All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

    — Oscar Wilde
    8
  • As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

    — Benjamin Disraeli
    8
  • To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

    — George Eliot
    8
  • Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

    — Novalis
    8
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  • In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

    — Voltaire
    8
  • It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

    — Marshal Ferdinand Foch
    7
  • The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

    — John Stuart Mill
    6
  • Constitutions should consist only of general provisions;

    the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

    — Alexander Hamilton
    5
  • We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good.

    We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

    — Eric Hoffer
    5
  • Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

    — Thomas Jefferson
    5
  • I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

    — Abraham Lincoln
    5
  • Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

    — Niccolo Machiavelli
    5
  • The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

    — Napoleon Bonaparte
    5
  • I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

    — Thomas Jefferson
    5
  • A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

    — Douglas MacArthur
    5
  • It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

    — Edmund Burke
    5
  • Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

    — Augustine of Hippo
    5
  • There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

    — Marcus Annaeus Seneca Seneca The Elder
    4
  • When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you will become a general. If you become a monk, then you will end up as Pope.' Instead, I became a painter, and wound up as Picasso.

    — Pablo Picasso
    4
  • Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

    — Alfred North Whitehead
    4
  • Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality.

    All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

    — Niccolo Machiavelli
    4
  • The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.

    — Igor Stravinsky
    4
  • The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception.

    Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

    — Marco Tempest
    4
  • It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

    — Samuel Johnson
    4
  • The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

    — Unknown
    3
  • People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

    — Samuel Butler
    3
  • As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

    — Edward W. Howe
    3
  • To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

    — William Blake
    3
  • An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

    — G. W. F. Hegel
    3
  • Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

    — Socrates
    3
  • He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.

    — Olympia Brown
    3
  • Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

    — Thomas Sowell
    3
  • It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

    — Sun Tzu
    3
  • I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.

    — Steven Wright
    3
  • In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

    — Alexander Hamilton
    3
  • I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

    — Sonny Rollins
    3
  • Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

    — Immanuel Kant
    2
  • Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

    — John Berryman
    2
  • In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

    — Lord Byron
    2
  • True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

    — Napoleon Bonaparte
    2
  • Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

    — Joseph De Maistre
    2
  • Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.

    — Junius
    2

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