Generalizations Quotes

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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
...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 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 W. Allport
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
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. — John Gunther
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 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
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.
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
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
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
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
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli

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