Words matter. These are the best Generalizations Quotes from famous people such as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Rachel Bloom, Clarence Thomas, John Lukacs, Jacques Yves Cousteau, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations… They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.
I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations – ‘Love is a flower,’ ‘The sky is so dark’ – but comedy lives in specifics.
It’s fascinating that people, there’s so many people now who will make judgments based on what you look like. I’m black. So I’m supposed to think a certain way. I’m supposed to have certain opinions. I don’t do that. You don’t create a box and put people in and then make a lot of generalizations about them.
Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him.
The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
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.
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.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
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.
So often, generalizations don’t apply to Catholic voters. Catholics are concerned about the war, the economy, about issues like abortion, issues pertaining to the budget and funding Medicaid and Medicare and what happens to the environment.
Any of us who’ve been newspapermen for a long time hate generalizations.
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.
Black lives certainly do matter – that’s one thing. But, it’s just that in every profession, there are bad, as well as there are good. I think it’s wrong to make cops – or any group – out to be the enemy based on a generalization. Stigmas and generalizations about groups are what get this world into such turmoil.
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I’ll say, if that is the case – right now it’s an American issue.
