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Quotes About Generalization

She sighed. "All men are the same." "So are all women—after the first nine.
~ Raymond Chandler
Jewish men don't know anything.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.
~ Cynthia Leitich Smith
Jews can make more money accidentally than you can on purpose.
~ Jerry Falwell
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.
~ Edward Charles Titchmarsh
One swallow never makes a summer.
~ John Heywood
Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.
~ Paul Pavlo Shiller
I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there's no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.
~ David Biespiel
Never judge a country by its politicians.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
We think in generalities but we live in detail.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
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
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are The plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
~ William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit—general knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
~ William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot.
~ William Blake
Men are shits." "All men?" "Maybe I'm being too harsh. There might be a nice guy in Toledo. I'm just talking about the ones I sleep with.
~ William Lashner
99% of all lawyers give the rest of them a bad name.
~ David Gerrold
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
~ Ricky Williams
Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
~ Jeanette Winterson
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
~ Edward Hallett Carr
The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
Most women have no characters at all.
~ Alexander Pope
In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
~ Gale Norton