All generalizations are questionable.

“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!" ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)”

— Anton Chekhov

“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

— Ezra Pound

“Over against these generalizations we raise no objection, but there are many cases, in practical life, of doubtful nature. An act of charity, for…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Usually, thinking may end up widen our imaginations that creates nonsense generalizations.

— Glemar

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The problem with generalizations is that there are always special cases under which they don't apply, except for when there aren't.”

— John Himself

“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the…

— Francis Crick

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

...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

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“ En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus circonspect. In…

— Henri Poincare

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

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about…

— Judith Butler

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited,…

— George C. Williams

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