We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“It's bad to make general statements about groups of people--there are always exceptions, and those exceptions are likely to be offended if… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
If you keep generalizing people in one-dimensional ways, that's how we're gonna see them, but when you represent them in a way… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research. — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really… — Mary Wollstonecraft 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
I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times,… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Well,' he said, 'I don't know. What's the use of my generalizing? I only know my own case. I like women, but… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
