Generalization Quotes
Generalization Quote of the day
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.
To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
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.
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.
I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that.
Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.
One generalization that is supported both by research and experience is that effective two-way communication is essential to proper functioning of the leader-follower relationship.
I think we all ought to be careful about too much generalization on this issue, even as I confess to painting with a pretty broad brush myself!
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.
Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
