Quotes with generalizations

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• All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

  Alexandre Dumas père
  French writer (1802 - 1870)
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• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

  Bertrand Russell
  English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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• Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

  Machiavelli
  Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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• The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

  Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)

  Richard Buckminster Fuller
  American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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• There is a constant rush to judgment in Foucault. He is filled with specious generalizations, false categories, distortions, fudging, pretenses to knowledge in areas where he was ignorant. He had no ability whatsoever to distinguish among historical sources, where he makes terrible blunders.

  Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• generalizations
• observations
• integration
• distortions
• distinguish
• categories

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