God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue]” — John B. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are… — Maryann Brandon Copy Share Image
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
“I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.” — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks -… — Francis Crick 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
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't… — Jeffrey Jones Copy Share Image
Law is no explanation of anything; law is simply a generalization, a category of facts. Law is neither a cause, nor a… — Florence Nightingale 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
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
The eternal is omniembracing and permeative; and the temporal is linear. This opens up a very high order of generalizations of generalizations.… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
In a novella, a whole lot of crap can happen, and you can build momentum and suspense and leave room for a… — Robert Reed Copy Share Image
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr Copy Share Image
It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers,… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In reading, one should notice and fondle details. There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image