Generalizations Quotes

All generalizations are false, including this one.

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

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.

I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and from which one couldn't necessarily make a lot of generalizations.

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

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

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

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

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.