đź’¬ SenQuotes.com

Generalization Quotes

1.
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
Kurt Gödel

Authors on Generalization Quotes: Ian Hacking Dwight D. Eisenhower John Fowles Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Claude Bernard John Gunther Karl Marx Czeslaw Milosz Kurt Gödel Graham Greene William James B.S. Johnson Mark Twain Robert M. Pirsig Eric Hoffer Jeffrey Jones
2.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
Graham Greene

3.
The true enemy of man is generalization.
Czeslaw Milosz

4.
No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

5.
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

6.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
Eric Hoffer

7.
I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days.
Jeffrey Jones

8.
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
Ian Hacking

9.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
John Gunther

10.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx

11.
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
Mark Twain

12.
In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.
B.S. Johnson

13.
Data without generalization is just gossip.
Robert M. Pirsig

14.
An aphorism is a generalization, therefore not modern.
John Fowles

15.
Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.
Claude Bernard

16.
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
William James