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I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
Data without generalization is just gossip.
The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.
Universal opinions are often mistaken for universal principles
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.
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.
All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
If you don't generalize you don't philosophize.
The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.
A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.
Hate generalises, love specifies
She said, on general principles.
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .
All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.
In the particular is contained the universal.
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations.
The more specific you are, the more universal you are.
Sweeping generalizations are easy, but we are more alike than we are different. Our focus and interests may vary, or not, but to dismiss something as less relevant is a missed opportunity.
Stereotypes are valid first-order approximations.' The
One tries to tell a truth, and one hopes that the truth has a general application rather than just a specific one.
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
Nisbett and Borgida summarize the results in a memorable sentence: Subjects' unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it.
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.
Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them.
No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.
My potential salvation ... must remain an unswerving commitment to treat generality only as it emerges from little things that arrest us and open our eyes with "aha"
while direct, abstract, learned assaults upon generalities usually glaze them over.
We defend ourselves with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Be careful of people who generalize to lure large crowds for ANY reason ...
All generalisations - perhaps except this one - are false.
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.
The general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied
We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me ... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.
Any of us who've been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
What makes it difficult for the average man to be a universalist is that the average man has to be a specialist; he has not only to learn one trade, but to learn it so well as to uphold him in a more or less ruthless society.
It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.
common sense is embedded in common things
Cliches, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality, that is, against the claim on our thinking attention that all events and facts make by virtue of their existence.
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.
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
One or two particulars may suggest hints of enquiry, and they do well who take those hints; but if they turn them into conclusions, and make them presently general rules, they are forward indeed, but it is only to impose on themselves by propositions assumed for truths without sufficient warrant.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
People are universal.
What is the universal?
The single case.
What is the particular?
Millions of cases.
In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule.
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.
I speak what appears to me the general opinion; and where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. Though
For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply embedded in mystery. It is not answerable to any of our formulas.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal, as if it were not a benefit and a joy to a man, being what he is, to know that many are, have been, and will be better than he.
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity ... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
Still, I wonder sometimes what we are asking when we ask if findings apply elsewhere...Maybe what we are really asking when we ask if a study is "generalizable"is: Can it really be this bad everywhere? Or maybe we're asking: Do I really have to pay attention to this problem?
We think in generalities, but we live in details.
As so often, the ordinary rank and file of the electorate have seen a truth, an important fact, which has escaped so many more clever people the underlying value of that which is traditional, that which is prescriptive.
There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature's scheme of evolution.
A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, the impasse it presents at another, causes to deviate extensively from his preconceived plan.
A perception that exists in the mind is often interpreted as a universal truth.
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.
You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.
I like gross generalizations ... I also like disgusting specifics!
The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth.
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this
tendency.
Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.
The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.
Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.
Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.
Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.
Our national, criminal cases bear witness precisely to something universal, to some general malaise that has taken root among us, and with which, as with universal evil, it is already very difficult to contend.
( ... philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.
That everyone is of equal significance and that the differences between individuals are more important than the differences between broad classes?
I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.
Normative mind tends to be naive.
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
What is common sense to one, is not always so common to another.