Generalize Quotes

43 quotes by 39 authors

To generalize is to be an idiot. — William Blake
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer. — Henri Poincare
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so… — Vera Brittain
But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is… — Bertrand Russell
Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl
Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason without error. In… — James Hutton
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,… — D. H. Lawrence
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse. — Rudolph Valentino
It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries… — Margot Asquith
My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible to realize one thing or… — James Ensor
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But thereâ€™s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel
If you don't generalize you don't philosophize. — Robert M. Pirsig
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and… — Edmund Blair Bolles
It is difficult to generalize about Islam. To begin with, the word itself is commonly used with two related but distinct meanings, as the equivalents… — Bernard Lewis
Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes… — David Richo
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future. — Larry Wall
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. — Mark Twain
I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. — Dave Barry

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