Generalization Quotes · Page 2

Data without generalization is just gossip.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.”

— Jack Kerouac

An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.

— John Fowles

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

— B.S. Johnson

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be…

— Barbara Boxer

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with…

— John C. Bogle

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

— John Lukacs

Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we…

— Peter Senge

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for…

— Jenny Hoyston

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

— Naomi Watts

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

— Joseph Epstein

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

— Anonymous

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

— Leonard Ravenhill

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations,…

— Derek Bok

I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character…

— Walter Millis

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status…

— Lily Cole

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No…

— Colin Flaherty

It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the…

— A.J. Ayer

A mathematician who can only generalise is like a monkey who can only climb up a tree, and a mathematician who can…

— George Polya

But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as…

— Amandla Stenberg

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other…

— Bertrand Russell

[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on…

— Frederick Soddy

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

— Edward Said

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

— Alice Schwarzer

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

— Anton Chekhov

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

— Claude Bernard

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

— Karl Marx

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and…

— Frank Lampard

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.

— Virginia Woolf

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots…

— William Blake

I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about…

— Frederick Wiseman

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

— Anatole Broyard

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

— Haruki Murakami