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title: "21 Generalizing Quotes by 20 authors"
description: "Browse 21 Generalizing quotes by 20 authors. Discover the best Generalizing sayings and thoughts."
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> [We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-murdoch/we-defend-ourselves-by-descriptions-and-tame-the-world-by-generalizing/)

[Iris Murdoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iris-murdoch/)

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> [Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/power-of-generalizing-gives-men-so-much-the-superiority-in-mistake/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-murdoch/we-defend-ourselves-with-descriptions-and-tame-the-world-by/)

[Iris Murdoch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iris-murdoch/)

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> [I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-barry/i-realize-that-i-m-generalizing-here-but-as-is-often-the-case-when-i/)

[Dave Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-barry/)

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> [Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/priyanka-chopra/generalizing-a-type-of-people-is-really-primitive/)

[Priyanka Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/priyanka-chopra/)

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> [Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/criss-jami/generally-there-is-a-lot-of-truth-value-in-stepping-back-observing/)

[Criss Jami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/criss-jami/)

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> [“It's bad to make general statements about groups of people--there are always exceptions, and those exceptions are likely to be offended if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mira-grant/it-s-bad-to-make-general-statements-about-groups-of-people-there-are/)

[Mira Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mira-grant/)

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> [Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-ferneyhough/actually-most-things-i-say-in-public-lead-more-or-less-directly-to-my/)

[Brian Ferneyhough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-ferneyhough/)

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> [I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitava-kumar/i-m-generalizing-wildly-but-academic-books-find-safety-in/)

[Amitava Kumar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitava-kumar/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/amitava-kumar-5002_books_i-m-generalizing-wildly-but-academic-boo_2901106.png)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iman-vellani/if-you-keep-generalizing-people-in-one-dimensional-ways-that-s-how-we/)

[Iman Vellani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iman-vellani/)

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> [Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nassim-nicholas-taleb/life-is-a-tightrope-between-two-errors-generalizing-the-wrong/)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nassim-nicholas-taleb/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60d/nassim-nicholas-taleb-352_errors_life-is-a-tightrope-between-two-errors-g_495608.png)

> [No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-mintzberg/no-generalizing-beyond-the-data-no-theory-no-theory-no-insight-and-if/)

[Henry Mintzberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-mintzberg/)

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> [The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft/the-power-of-generalizing-ideas-of-drawing-comprehensive-conclusions/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft/)

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> [There is nothing in the education of the average non-scientific human being to discourage him from the habit of generalizing from little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gwethalyn-graham/there-is-nothing-in-the-education-of-the-average-non-scientific-human/)

[Gwethalyn Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gwethalyn-graham/)

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> [I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-vernon/i-am-generalizing-of-course-but-in-hip-hop-it-s-like-you-get-this/)

[Justin Vernon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-vernon/)

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> [the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-douglas-wiggin/the-habit-of-generalizing-from-one-particular-that-mainstay-of-the/)

[Kate Douglas Wiggin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-douglas-wiggin/)

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> [“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/from-my-own-experience-when-someone-is-trying-very-hard-to-get/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [“Well,' he said, 'I don't know. What's the use of my generalizing? I only know my own case. I like women, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence-2/well-he-said-i-don-t-know-what-s-the-use-of-my-generalizing-i-only/)

[D.H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence-2/)

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> [I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerald-stanley-lee/i-am-through-generalizing-about-ideas-apart-from-men-who-generate/)

[Gerald Stanley Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerald-stanley-lee/)

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> [“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matt-parker/this-quest-to-take-a-problem-and-see-what-happens-in-different/)

[Matt Parker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matt-parker/)

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> [There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-de-lint/there-s-bad-apples-in-whatever-way-you-want-to-group-people-doesn-t/)

[Charles de Lint](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-de-lint/)

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