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There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations. — Lancelot Hogben

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli

I hate it when people throw big sweeping generalizations at you that you can't even begin to interpret. — Karen Marie Moning

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

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. — Gordon W. Allport

All generalizations are false, including this one. — Alexander Chase

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. — Ezra Pound

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one. — Pascal Boyer

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H.G.Wells

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. — Alexandre Dumas

As is always the case, events do not conform easily to the generalizations historians produce to try to make sense of the past. — Glenn Porter

All generalizations are questionable. — Sandor Schuman

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

People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for. — Crystal Woods

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

The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Life wouldn't be easier or not easier. Aren't both generalizations logically impossible? Since there's no correlation, there can be no comparison. — Kobo Abe

Chesterton had an incorrigible and persistent tendency to throw-the-baby-out-with-the-bathwater. — R. Alan Woods

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it. — Criss Jami

Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name. — Marty Rubin

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. — John Lukacs

I like gross generalizations ... I also like disgusting specifics! — Josh Stern

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. — Robert Smithson

Not all 'whites' are racists. Not all racists are 'white. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains ... — Virginia Woolf

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

Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations. — Pete Hamill

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

Answers come after questions, not before. Answers answer questions in specific and pointed ways, not in sweeping generalizations. — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

So, to sum up my room-clearing generalizations, men are in comedy to break rules. — Tina Fey

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

As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data. — Robert Lane Greene

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations — Graham Greene

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. — John Gunther

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

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people. — Roger Ebert

I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The sky is so dark' - but comedy lives in specifics. — Rachel Bloom

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see. — Criss Jami

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate. — Agatha Christie

Good teaching is creating really interesting generalizations out of war stories. — Derek Bok