It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any…

I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that…

— Neal Adams

“I realize that we are often wary of making these kinds of broad generalizations about different cultural groups--and with good reason. This is the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy, nasty habit…

— David Brin

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of…

— Jerry Fodor

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

— Mark Haddon

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

— John B. Cobb Jr

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

— Edward Said

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

— James Joseph Sylvester

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

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is…

— Jerry Fodor

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower