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Quotes About Particularization

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
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
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We might say that the three paragraphs we've just read were in service of increased specification.
~ George Saunders
Empiece por los detalles.
~ Walter Isaacson
To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.
~ William Blake
think, indeed, that women have a better grasp on the whole business of life than we men have. We are morally better than they are, but they can reach perfection, we can't. And that is in spite of the fact that they particularise, we generalise.
~ Penelope Fitzgerald