Generalization Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Generalization.
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“All sweeping assertions are erroneous.”
“People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.”
“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”
“All generalizations are false, including this one.”
“Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.”
“Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.”
“The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.”
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“An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.”
“The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.”
“A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.”
“Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.”
“For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.”
“I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.”
“Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as "glittering generalities," have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.”
“We generalize from one situation to another not because we cannot tell the difference between the two situations but because we judge that they are likely to belong to a set of situations having the same consequence.”
“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological / resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”