All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. — Kurt Gödel Copy Share Image
“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — 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
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
“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.” — Lionel Shriver 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
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson 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
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
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
I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about… — Neal Adams 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
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
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'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
...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
“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
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
But when you only speak using generalizations, you run the danger of denying the specific. In recent decades, millions of people have… — Alice Schwarzer 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
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 Copy Share Image
“My best friend and I used to play a game sometimes...we'd divide everyone we knew into two categories based on the way… — Kemper Donovan 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
“General theories are everywhere condemned; the doctrine of the Rights of Man is dismissed with the doctrine of the Fall of Man.… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“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
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
LOGIC = L. Living O. Obvious G. Generalizations I. Implying C. Constants — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“There are always exceptions to every generalization. [A Christian Epilogue]” — John B. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image