Books Quote by Amitava Kumar

We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

— Iris Murdoch

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 that reflects…

— Iman Vellani

the habit of generalizing from one particular, that mainstay of the cheap and obvious essayist, has rooted many fictions in the public eye. Nothing,…

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

— Henry Mintzberg

“This quest to take a problem and see what happens in different situations is called generalizing, and it is this force that drives mathematics…

— Matt Parker

“From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard…

— Haruki Murakami

“Well,' he said, 'I don't know. What's the use of my generalizing? I only know my own case. I like women, but I don't…

— D.H. Lawrence

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

— George Eliot

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is…

— Charles de Lint

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

— Criss Jami

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

— Priyanka Chopra