Generalization Quotes

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As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical… — Michiko Kakutani
In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies. — B.S. Johnson
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H.G. Wells
People forget that stereotypes arenâ€™t bad because they are always untrue. Stereotypes are bad because they are not always true. If we allow ourselves to… — George Takei
I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a singleâ€”and singularâ€”piece… — Joseph Epstein
Suppose that you want to teach the 'cat' concept to a very young child. Do you explain that a cat is a relatively small, primarily… — Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. — John Lukacs
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity… — Elif Safak
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a… — Trevanian
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction.… — A.J. Ayer
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific "truth."… — Richard P. Feynman
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that… — Edmund Leach
Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the… — Kenny Smith
..I sought a world philosophy-or an integral philosophy-that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western… — Ken Wilber
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more… — Israel Zangwill
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged. — Peter De Vries
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. — Thomas B. Macaulay

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