Adventure Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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

“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

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

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

— Anonymous

The expression of divinity is in variety.

— Sheri S. Tepper

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present…

— Alfred North Whitehead

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

We are aspects of Divinity, in the process of knowing ourselves experientially.

— Neale Donald Walsch

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

— Woodrow Wilson