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Quotes about Generalization

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.
- Mark Twain
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.
- George Bernard Shaw
Any theory based on experience is necessarily statistical; that is to say, it formulates an ideal average which abolishes all exceptions at either end of the scale and replaces them by an abstract mean.
- Carl Jung
Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.
- Jack Kerouac
Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the original sin of the mind and have not use for the slogans, the unqualified assertion and sweeping generalization which are the propagandists stock in the trade.
- Aldous Huxley
It's impossible to generalize about sexuality - even one's own. The only way to keep it pure is to keep it unspoken. Keep it out of words. Words are not where sexuality lives. Without privacy, there is no ecstasy.
- Erica Jong
Im like my mother, I stereotype. Its faster.
- George Clooney