"People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations" — Graham Greene
"People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations"
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Graham Greene
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207 Quotes by Graham Greene
Graham Greene has 207 quotes on this site.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can…
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an…
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word,…
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive,…
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians…
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo…
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all,…
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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More Generalization Quotes
This quote is filed under Generalization Quotes,
one of 79 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and…
— Madeleine Albright
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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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Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to…
— Bertrand Russell
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Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about. There is almost nothing you can say…
— Roy Lichtenstein
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The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a…
— Hans Reichenbach
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[This] may prove to be the beginning of some embracing generalization, which will throw light, not only on radioactive processes,…
— Frederick Soddy
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For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike,…
— Bertrand Russell
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We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories…
— Unknown Author
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...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the…
— Jerry Fodor
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There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.
— Richard P. Feynman
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There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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