Generalization Quotes · Page 2

The true enemy of man is generalization.

— Anonymous

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

— Mark Twain

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— John B. Cobb Jr

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Jenny Hoyston

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

— Claude Bernard

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories.

— Derek Bok

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

— H. G. Wells

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

— Colin Flaherty

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in…

— Poul Anderson

I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any…

— Seth Gabel

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes…

— Alfred North Whitehead

So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us…

— John Maynard Smith

Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies…

— Lord Kelvin

But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have…

— Alice Schwarzer

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

— Edward Said

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on…

— Frederick Soddy

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

If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in…

— Susan Forward

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.

— Robert Smithson

There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.

— Lancelot Hogben

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

— William James

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

I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization!

— Sam Claflin

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Stephen Batchelor

“I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization.”

— Richard Dawkins

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

— Thomas Malthus

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

— Haruki Murakami