"To generalize is to be an idiot." — William Blake

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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
• In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on… — Henri Poincare
• Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore… — Vera Brittain
• But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious… — Bertrand Russell
• Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize. — Charles Sanders Peirce
• Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl
• Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not… — James Hutton
• Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered… — D. H. Lawrence
• To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize in them is infinitely worse. — Rudolph Valentino
• It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and,… — Margot Asquith
• My art tends toward the literary. My pictures tend toward the outskirts of painting: But why generalize? It is possible… — James Ensor
• I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry. — David Biespiel

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