Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of… — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends. — William James Copy Share Image
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse. — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
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