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An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern. — John Fowles

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus

The Dream thrives on generalization, on limiting the number of possible questions, on privileging immediate answers. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally! This is a big generalization! — Sam Claflin

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. — Ian Hacking

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science. — Claude Bernard

No generalization is wholly true - not even this one. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular. — Anatole Broyard

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not trying to make a point by telling stories. Chosen examples are never serious evidence for any worthwhile generalization. — Richard Dawkins

Generalization is impossible. It is an insult. — Anneli Rufus

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. — Jack Schwartz

All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way. — Peter Watts

I do think that there are - again, gross generalization - more women than men that can tolerate that or that are OK with that. — Maryann Brandon

All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false. — Kurt Godel

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. — Karl Marx

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

The Germans, if one may risk a generalization, have a weakness for blaming foreigners for their failures. — William L. Shirer

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one. — Mark Twain

There are always exceptions to every generalization.
[A Christian Epilogue] — John B. Cobb Jr.

There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. — Richard P. Feynman

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

Data without generalization is just gossip. — Robert M. Pirsig

In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies. — B.S. Johnson

The true enemy of man is generalization. — Czeslaw Milosz

No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends. — William James

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification. — Robin Morgan

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. — Edward Hallett Carr

Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in. — Jack Kerouac

My thinking pattern always starts with specifics and works toward generalization in an associational and nonsequential way. — Temple Grandin