“ An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. ”
- Georg Hegel- Copy
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“ To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own… ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die. ”
- Margot Asquith- Copy
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“ It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general. The farmer philosophizes in terms of crops, soils, markets, and implements, the mechanic generalizes his experiences of wood and iron, the seaman reaches similar conclusions by his own special road; and if the scholar keeps pace with these it must be by an equally virile productivity. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
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“ The child with his sweet pranks, full of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred… ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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