Generalization Quotes

• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

  

  William Blake
  • Attention
  • Take Care
  • Abstraction

• If there's one generalization you can make, it's that Roth IRAs are for younger people, but that may extend up as high as 50, depending on the circumstances.

  

  Ed Slott
  • Circumstances
  • Generalization
  • Younger people

• This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior.

  

  William Mapother
  • Hate
  • Decision
  • Feelings

• In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

  

  B.S. Johnson
  • Lies
  • Lying
  • Generalization

• During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

  

  Hermann von Helmholtz
  • Knowledge
  • Purpose
  • Accomplished

• I could have been on a path that led to different, more traditional teen romance, and 'Nip/Tuck' shook me loose from any generalization I might have been forced into. It helped me understand I wanted to take on things that were edgier, more challenging and riskier.

  

  Seth Gabel
  • Different
  • Path
  • Challenges

• The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Individuals
  • Generalization
  • Singularity

• What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

  

  Edward Hallett Carr
  • Historian
  • Collector
  • Generalization

• I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult.

  

  Walter Millis
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Character

• No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.

  

  William James
  • Details
  • Generalization

• There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Life
  • Wine
  • Found