Quotes for All
Texas is a country in its own. It’s made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don’t mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that’s really made up of all these encounters, you know? Gael Garcia Bernal
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. Eric Hoffer
( …philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature.) Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete. Epifanio de los Santos
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It’s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people … Read more
Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water. Elif Safak
It is very easy to make wild generalizations about Islam. All you have to do is read almost any issue of The New Republic and you’ll see there the radical evil that’s associated with Islam, the Arabs as having a depraved culture, and so forth. These are impossible generalizations to make in the United States … Read more
What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization. Edward Hallett Carr
How can a modern anthropologist embark upon a generalization with any hope of arriving at a satisfactory conclusion? By thinking of the organizational ideas that are present in any society as a mathematical pattern. Edmund Leach
We lay down a fundamental principle of generalization by abstraction: The existence of analogies between central features of various theories implies the existence of a general theory which underlies the particular theories and unifies them with respect to those central features. E. H. Moore