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All generalizations are false, including this one.
In the particular lies the universal.
We assume of others what we know of ourselves
I hate it when people throw big sweeping generalizations at you that you can't even begin to interpret.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
The historians criticized a tendency, as they phrased it, to too rapid generalization. Other people blamed my method; and those who complimented me were those who understood me least.
There is some blogging jerk out there who feels he can generalize his way to validity.
No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying "how do you do?" When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value
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.
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.
All general judgments are loose and imperfect
Are you a meaningful specific or a wandering generality ?
Platitudes and generalities roll of the human understanding like water from a duck
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.
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.
Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.
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.
How dangerous it is to assume that a person is more than a person.
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.
General notions are generally wrong.
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
People who like quotations love meaningless generalisations.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
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.
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.
Stereotyping reduces individuals to an average, whereas science recognizes that many people fall outside the average range for their group.
Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
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.
A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.
Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.
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.
( ... philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.
I like gross generalizations ... I also like disgusting specifics!
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
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.
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?
Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of.
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.
It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.
Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality.
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation.
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.
Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
Normative mind tends to be naive.
We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.
In dealing with others, man is inherently a slave to his preconceptions, to the stereotypes he became familiar with that made life easier for him to comprehend.
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.
People are universal.
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
Ignorance is the mother of presumption
Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.
Assumptions are what we don't know we are making
If we relate to people believing that we can categorize them, we will neither identify nor nuture the parts, the vital parts, of the other that transcends category. The enabling relationship always assumes that the other is never fully knowable.
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.
Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.
Generalities don't count and won't help you in football.
Don't become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.
There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.
Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
be careful of thinking about people as "kinds of people"?
Assumptions are made and most assumptions are wrong.
Hate generalises, love specifies
Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them ...
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.
The more specific you are, the more universal you are.
Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.
People take even greater umbrage when they hear themselves labeled with a common noun. The reason is that a noun predicate appears to pigeonhole the with a stereotype of a category rather than referring to them as an individual who happens to possess a trait.
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.
Stereotypes are the mind's shorthand for dealing with complexities. They have two aspects: they are much blunter than reality; they are shaped to fit a man's preferences or prejudgments. Thus two principles are involved: differentiation or its lack, and biased preferential perception.
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.
In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.
We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves.
When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.
All generalizations, with the possible exception of this one, are false.
Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others.
Making judgements about other people requires that we understand where they are coming from;their motivations and their fears. Only then can we claim to know them.
[On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.
If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.
A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.
The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people's experiences as an interpretive lens.
These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with a little thought by anyone.
Reducing a group to a slur or stereotype reduces us all.
There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends,
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.
Social scientists have observed that when members of a group are made aware of a negative stereotype, they are more likely to perform according to that stereotype.
Beware of assumptions and the arrogance they bring
General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
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 Only Group That Can Categorize Everything Is Everybody
The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
Stereotypes become extinct faster than there appear new impressions concerning our reality, culture and consciousness...