Generalization Quotes · Page 2

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

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Jenny Hoyston

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

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

— Colin Flaherty

( ...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

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

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

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

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

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

— Anatole Broyard

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

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

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

— Stephen Batchelor

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

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

— Jonah Goldberg

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

— Ian Hacking

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

— Robin Morgan

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

— Barbara Tuchman

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