Generalization Quotes · Page 2

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Stereotyping is their fuel, as generalization-free world would end their rule.

— Mohit Sharma

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

— Jack Schwartz

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.

— Rudolph Valentino

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.

— Kurt Gödel

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

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Stephen Batchelor

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

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

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And…

— Trevanian

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and…

— Gregory Bateson

If it is to be effective as a tool of thought, a notation must allow convenient expression not only of notions arising…

— Kenneth E. Iverson

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily…

— Madeleine Albright

As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And…

— Michiko Kakutani

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;"…

— Phillips Brooks

I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I…

— Ayshay

This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to…

— William Mapother

Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings…

— Arthur Eddington

Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it…

— Kenny Smith

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge…

— Richard P. Feynman

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

In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

I think it's very easy for people who are not deep in the technology itself to make generalizations, which may be a…

— Rodney Brooks

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots…

— William Blake

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

— Claude Bernard

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

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and…

— Frank Lampard

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

— Karl Marx

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with…

— John C. Bogle

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

— Edward Hallett Carr

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be…

— Barbara Boxer

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they…

— Jeanette Winterson