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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… — Bertrand Russell
- ...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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