Generalization Quotes · Page 3

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

— Thomas Malthus

“I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.”

— Richard Dawkins

I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are…

— Maryann Brandon

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!

— Anton Chekhov

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and…

— William Blake

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last.…

— Peter De Vries

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

— Anonymous

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

— Stephen Batchelor

So the English approach to show business and their work is more - and this is a big generalization, I hasten to…

— Elizabeth McGovern

( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to…

— Epifanio de los Santos

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world -…

— Brandi Carlile

Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around… It is more…

— Barbara Tuchman

Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

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

— Lord Kelvin

One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are…

— Hippocrates

Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and…

— Israel Zangwill

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge…

— Richard P. Feynman

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information…

— Steven Weber

The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived…

— Hans Reichenbach

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

— Ian Hacking

As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a…

— Jonah Goldberg

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

— Robin Morgan

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any…

— Seth Gabel

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in…

— Poul Anderson

There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge…

— Camille Paglia

Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the…

— Freya Stark

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth,…

— C. S. Lewis

How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the…

— Edmund Leach

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however,…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous…

— James Bryant Conant

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and…

— Aldous Huxley

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I…

— Ayshay