Quotes About Oversimplification

I think the problem with visual media like TV is that they're reductive.

All generalizations are bad.

The idea that foods and diets will "just mix" when they come into contact is clearly a vast oversimplification.

Beware the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.

It is simple. That is why the idea is missed.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimplifies, he exaggerates, and he basically led the Republican Party over the cliff in the fall of 2013. He has shown no qualifications, no legislation being passed, doesn't provide leadership, and he has no real experience.

Targeting individuals, while ignoring larger system failures, oversimplifies the problem and does little to prevent its recurrence.

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.

As the legal scholar Frederick Schauer has observed, "painting with a broad brush" is "an often inevitable and frequently desirable dimension of our decision-making lives.

The Edsel was obviously jinxed, but to say that it was jinxed by its design alone would be an oversimplification, as it would be to say that it was jinxed by an excess of motivational research.

I think it's an oversimplification of somebody's worth to 'cancel' them. We're so quick to cancel but also so quick to lift somebody up as 'the queen,' 'the mom,' 'the dad,' 'the god.'

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

Para todo problema complejo hay una solución simple y equivocada.

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

People have become desperate to reduce everything, including each other, to mindless categories of good and bad, as if the world can be divided into Facebook likes and dislikes.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

The problem is not one of globalization, but one of generalization.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Quotes are for people who like broad generalizations

We see this repeatedly in the news. We get neat little packaged reports – even on complex issues. We're told who the bad guys are, who the good guys are, who the victims are, who the perpetrators are.

This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.