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Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. -- John Lukacs
Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women whose talent and capacity place them outside the average description. -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him. -- Freya Stark
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. -- Alexandre Dumas
All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain
All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain
Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. -- Derek Bok
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. -- Roger Ebert
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. -- John Gunther
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. -- Robert Smithson
I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. -- Kerry Washington
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people. -- Mark Haddon
Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him. -- Nicholas Kristof
Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category. -- Ben Bernanke
I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations. -- John Negroponte
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. -- Derek Bok
Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentable stereotype to make large generalizations about all Jews, and to presume they all share the same political commitments? -- Judith Butler
So often, generalizations don't apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. -- George C. Williams
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days. -- Jeffrey Jones
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. -- Francis Crick
It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I'm black. So I'm supposed to think a certain way. I'm supposed to have certain opinions. I don't do that. You don't create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them. -- Clarence Thomas
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations -- Graham Greene
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. -- Kurt GÃ¶del
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. -- H. G. Wells
There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. -- Lancelot Hogben
Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations. -- Stephen Batchelor
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ... -- Virginia Woolf
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. -- Gordon Willard Allport
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. -- Gordon Willard Allport
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! -- Anton Chekhov
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) -- Anton Chekhov
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
( ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete. -- Epifanio de los Santos
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. -- Aldous Huxley
Mental models are deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures of images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action. -- Peter Senge
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged. -- Peter De Vries
At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. -- Poul Anderson
There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that. -- Jenny Hoyston
For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience. -- Bertrand Russell
Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring. -- Joseph Epstein
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am. -- Colin Flaherty
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water. -- Elif Safak

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