Generalization Quotes

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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's… — Madeleine Albright
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say that holds up as a… — Roy Lichtenstein
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes, but on elements in general… — Frederick Soddy
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from… — Bertrand Russell
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a… — E. H. Moore
...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is put… — Jerry Fodor
There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — Richard P. Feynman
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. — Stephen Batchelor
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. — Gordon Allport
One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Making an investment decision is like formulating a scientific hypothesis and submitting it to a practical test. The main difference is that the hypothesis that… — George Soros
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. — Poul Anderson
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization… — C.S. Lewis
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. — John Gunther
No generalization is wholly trueâ€”not even this one. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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