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“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.”

— William Strunk Jr

“they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves.”

— Richard Hofstadter

“Just to give you a general idea, he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if…

— Aldous Huxley

“To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.”

— William Blake

“Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were…

— André Gide

“The problem with generalizations is that there are always special cases under which they don't apply, except for when there aren't.”

— John Himself

“Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits…

— Edmund Burke

“Properly speaking, there is no certainty; there are only people who are certain. —CHARLES RENOUVIER, ESSAIS DE CRITIQUE GÉNÉRALE”

— Kathryn Schulz

“Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How”

— Lesslie Newbigin

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.”

— Lionel Shriver