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
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
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov 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
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
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
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
Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone in America (according to my generalizations) is a potential millionaire waiting for his or her big break. I was astonished lately… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What often does promote evil behavior is the lazy,… — David Brin Copy Share Image
To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, more often than not you're… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The church as we know it today seems a million miles from the New Testament church. That may be a great generalization,… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
Obviously, there's all sorts of life happening all around us, but on a human level, I'm just interested in people making informed… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it… — Kenny Smith 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
Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings… — Arthur Eddington 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
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
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
there are people who are born superficial ... They prefer not to have to deal with more than a limited number of… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
People forget that stereotypes aren’t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that… — George Soros Copy Share Image
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the… — E. H. Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to make vast generalizations about people who go into legal professions, but there are similarities in the barristers that… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
