All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue]” — John B. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
LOGIC = L. Living O. Obvious G. Generalizations I. Implying C. Constants — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' -… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.” — Lionel Shriver 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
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The problem with generalizations is that there are always special cases under which they don't apply, except for when there aren't.” — John Himself Copy Share Image
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!" ( Letter to Alexander Chekhov , May 10, 1886)” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations… — George C. Williams 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
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“What has she done to deserve such scorn?' I said. He had the grace to look uncomfortable as he answered. 'Not her… — Catriona McPherson Copy Share Image
“We will have no generalizations. Mr. Bernard Shaw has put the view in a perfect epigram: "The golden rule is that there… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the… — Jerry Fodor 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
“Without knowing the full extent of the past, we have no idea whether the events we can see are typical of larger… — Steven J. Dick 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
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. We extend… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“Over against these generalizations we raise no objection, but there are many cases, in practical life, of doubtful nature. An act of… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Causing any damage or harm to one party in order to help another party is not justice, and likewise, attacking all feminine… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“most of our beliefs are generalizations about our past, based on our interpretations of painful and pleasurable experiences.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually, thinking may end up widen our imaginations that creates nonsense generalizations. — Glemar Copy Share Image
“Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater.” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“As a whole, humanity doesn’t lend itself to generalizations. But as I see it, there are two types of people: the comprehensive-vision… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“As soon as they leave, Leon says to me: "I disagree, sir. There are people who aren't insane, and I'm one of… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the Beholder,I say even if your vision is tempered the feel in your Heart will always… — Abhishek Sundarraman Copy Share Image