Generalizations Quotes
45 quotes by 44 authors
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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
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...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
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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
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
— Stephen Batchelor
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
— Gordon Allport
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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
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
— John Gunther
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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
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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
— Anton Chekhov
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
— H.G. Wells
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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.
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Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
— John Lukacs
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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
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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
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The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
— Robert Smithson
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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
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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
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..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
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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
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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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