“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
“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
“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
“ En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus… — Henri Poincare 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
“There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue]” — John B. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
“Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater.” — R. Alan Woods 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Ideas, of course, have a place in fiction, and any writer of fiction needs a mind. But ideas are not the best… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining… — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
“I hope that in due time the chemists will justify their proceedings by some large generalisations deduced from the infinity of results… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which… — James George Frazer Copy Share Image
“Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our… — Morris F. Cohen Copy Share Image
