Quote by William Blake Download Open image ““To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.”” — William Blake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.” — William Strunk Jr Copy Share Image
“Sweeping generalizations are easy, but we are more alike than we are different. Our focus and interests may vary, or not, but to dismiss… — Deborah Stanish Copy Share Image
“To think is to ignore the differences, to generalize, to abstract.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
