Generalize Quotes
43 quotes by 39 authors
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
— William Blake
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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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
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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
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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
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.
— Hermann Weyl
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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
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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
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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse.
— Rudolph Valentino
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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
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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
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I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
— David Biespiel
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If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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... 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
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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
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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
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Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
— Larry Wall
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You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
— Mark Twain
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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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