Quotes About Generalizing

Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Stereotyping is dangerous, but generalizing is a fair guide at the national level.

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

Is it that bad, Mrs. Bowen? Clement asked. Emily shook her head. Gertrude's been hurt and so she's generalizing. It's a pretty good country on the whole, and the people in it, too. We have our faults and they may be glaring, and we have individuals we may not be proud of, but take us by and large we'll stick our necks our for something we believe in, and that in itself may be a fault, but it's one I like. Bravo, Abe said.

I hate generalizing. But what I've seen, from what I've observed, fundraising's an issue for women candidates.

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

Now you're generalizing," Ivy said. "So you're thinking of going back to the devil you know?

I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.