Quotes About Generalization

Isn't it wrong to target and brand an entire state in a poor light?

Never mention the name of anything concrete and volatile. This is really just a restatement of the principle itself.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Prejudice and ethnic strife feed off abstraction.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

Marian found all this feminist generalisation and assertion both tedious and exhausting.

Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.

Was 'Crucify Your Mind' dedicated to anybody? No, it was a generalization. 'A Most Disgusting Song' is like that, too.

The failure of language—the tyranny of moral generalization over social inspection—fed the ruling class's belief that it was endangered from below.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

in real-life situations we often make the opposite error: we assume that a sample or a series of trials is representative of the underlying situation when it is actually far too small to be reliable.

the first requirement of expanding his knowledge is induction, which is in essence the process of inferring a generalization from observations.

My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the original sin of the mind and have not use for the slogans, the unqualified assertion and sweeping generalization which are the propagandist´s stock in the trade.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

The marks of this style are weight and clarity of argument, sudden turns of generalization and genial paradox, the telling short sentence to sum a complex paragraph, and unexpected touches of personal approach to the reader, whom he always assumes to be as logical, as learned, as romantic, and as open to conviction as himself. Not that in fact he was easily open to conviction; perhaps 'open to argument' would be a truer description.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.

Hillbilly stereotypes have always made it easier for middle-class whites to presume that racism is the exclusive province of 'that kind' of person.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

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.