Generalization Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“To generalize is to be an idiot," said Blake. Perhaps he went too far. But to generalize is to be a finite mind. Generalities…

— C.S. Lewis

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.

— William Blake

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

— Agatha Christie

Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather."…

— Joseph Epstein

Usually, thinking may end up widen our imaginations that creates nonsense generalizations.

— Glemar

The consciousness of a general idea has a certain "unity of the ego" in it, which is identical when it passes from one mind…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.

— Anonymous

If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.”

— Jorge Luis Borges