Advancement Quote by 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

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

— 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

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

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

— Anonymous

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

The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization…

— Hans Reichenbach

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

— William James

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.

— William Blake

“just because universal concepts result only from thinking away and leaving out actual and existing determinations, and are therefore the emptier the more universal…

— Arthur Schopenhauer