Generalization Quotes

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

— Kurt Gödel

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

— Rudolph Valentino

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

— Jack Schwartz

Stereotyping is their fuel, as generalization-free world would end their rule.

— Mohit Sharma

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

— Mark Twain

“There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue]”

— John B. Cobb Jr

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

— Robert Smithson

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

— Lancelot Hogben

I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!

— Sam Claflin

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations…

— Mark Haddon

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

— William James

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

— Derek Bok

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in…

— Anonymous

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that…

— Joseph Epstein

The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization,…

— Leonard Ravenhill

there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of…

— Gwethalyn Graham

In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or…

— Naomi Watts

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us…

— John Maynard Smith

Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately…

— Roseanne Barr

Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed…

— Reggie Watts

I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book…

— Joseph Epstein

If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in…

— Susan Forward

There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little…

— Gwethalyn Graham

It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The…

— Edward Said

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss…

— Anton Chekhov

Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies…

— Lord Kelvin

But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have…

— Alice Schwarzer

“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“In reading, one should notice and fondle details. There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

— Graham Greene

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

— Richard P. Feynman

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

— Roger Ebert

The true enemy of man is generalization.

— Anonymous