Quote by William Strunk Jr

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

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— William Blake

“Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.”

— Rod Dreher

“Generally speaking, I try not to generalize.”

— Anonymous

“To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions.”

— Angela Harris

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

— Wassily Kandinsky

“The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly.”

— José Ortega y Gasset

“Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.”

— Nisbett Borgida

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

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Fyodor Dostoevsky