Vast Majority

Famous quotes containing the words vast majority, vast and/or majority:

“We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truth ... unless we can trust to the human mind’s having such a power of guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.”
—Charles S. Pierce (1839–1914)

“If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)