Generalization Quotes

79 quotes by 70 authors

• I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of… — Mark Haddon
• Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as… — Frank Lampard
• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. — Karl Marx
• The true enemy of man is generalization. — Czeslaw Milosz
• People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations — Graham Greene
• He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… — Peter De Vries
• All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book. — Haruki Murakami
• The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to… — Ellen DeGeneres
• All generalizations are false, including this one. — Mark Twain
• What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr
• The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. — R. Buckminster Fuller
• There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. — Lancelot Hogben
• The true method of discovery is like the flight of an aeroplane. It starts from the ground of particular observation; it makes a flight in… — Alfred North Whitehead
• An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might… — Bertrand Russell
• It is, I believe, justifiable to make the generalization that anything an organic chemist can synthesize can be made without him. All he does is… — George Wells Beadle
• Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. — Jack Schwartz
• Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one. — Mark Twain
• Stereotyping is their fuel, as generalization-free world would end their rule. — Mohit Sharma

Who Wrote These Generalization Quotes

70 authors contributed a total of 79 Generalization Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 3 Generalization Quotes by Bertrand Russell
• 2 Generalization Quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
• 2 Generalization Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 2 Generalization Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
• 2 Generalization Quotes by Peter De Vries
• 2 Generalization Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Generalization Quotes by Richard P. Feynman
• 2 Generalization Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
• 1 Generalization Quote by Israel Zangwill
• 1 Generalization Quote by Elif Safak
• 1 Generalization Quote by A.J. Ayer
• 1 Generalization Quote by Robert Smithson
• 1 Generalization Quote by James G. Frazer
• 1 Generalization Quote by Kenny Smith
• 1 Generalization Quote by Gael Garcia Bernal
• 1 Generalization Quote by Ken Wilber
• 1 Generalization Quote by Seth Gabel
• 1 Generalization Quote by Aldous Huxley
• 1 Generalization Quote by Keegan-Michael Key
• 1 Generalization Quote by James Bryant Conant
• 1 Generalization Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz
• 1 Generalization Quote by George C. Williams
• 1 Generalization Quote by Florence Nightingale
• 1 Generalization Quote by Derek Bok
• 1 Generalization Quote by Samuel Eliot Morison