Quotes About Not Generalizing

#1. Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.

Iris Murdoch

#2. Gone is what happens when people stop asking, when all research has ceased, when no one contributes to the archives of a life or its extinction.

Ellen Miller

#3. When you are generalizing, and when your goal is to malign and to say things about an entire group - there are tens of millions of Scientologists in the world - when you decide to blanket statement that 'Scientology is evil,' you are my enemy.

Kirstie Alley

#4. What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.

William S. Burroughs

#6. The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem.

Michelangelo

#7. Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

Phyllis Diller

#8. Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

George Eliot

#9. I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that?

Justin Vernon

#10. A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

Raymond Geuss

#11. A generalizing specialist is more than just a generalist. A generalist is a jack-of-all-trades but a master of none, whereas a generalizing specialist is a jack-of-all-trades and master of a few. Big difference.

Jan Jursa

#12. No generalizing beyond the data, no theory. No theory, no insight. And if no insight, why do research.

Henry Mintzberg

#13. Say what you want about the deaf ...

Jimmy Carr

#14. We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.

Iris Murdoch

#15. Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Alex Cox

#16. I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn't.

Khaled Hosseini

#17. We are all the subjects of impressions, and some of use seek to convey the impressions to others. In the art of communicating impressions lies the power of generalizing without losing that logical connection of parts to the whole which satisfies the mind.

Camille Pissarro

#18. There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Charles De Lint

#19. I've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by each director are different. Having said that, I think that it's kind of disgraceful that there aren't more female directors.

Susanne Bier

#20. I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.

Dave Barry

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

Criss Jami

#22. great-grandmother's

Hazel Gaynor

#23. Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me.

Brian Ferneyhough

#24. Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. From my own experience, when someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them. I'm generalizing, of course.

Haruki Murakami

#26. I'm not generalizing anymore about men and women, because I think these old terms of "masculine" and "feminine" are going very fast with the rise of transgender rights that are questioning what all these categories are.

Kim Longinotto

#27. The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

George Saunders

#28. Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#29. The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#30. I have been a victim of stereotypes. I come from Latin America and to some countries, we are considered 'losers,' drug traffickers, and that is not fair because that is generalizing.

Ricky Martin