Generalizations Quotes

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

False, Including

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Alexandre Dumas

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

Human, Study, Lead

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

Eye, Museum, Everywhere

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

American, Dangerous, Issue

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.
Robert Welch

Time, Small, Memory

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.
Francis Crick

Nature, Same, Four

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

Nature, Experience, Bad

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Alexander Chase

False, Including

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.
John Negroponte

Took, Incident, Specific

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

Politics, Through, Cannot

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.
George C. Williams

Theory, Based, Capable

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

Matter, Stand, Forever

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