Overgeneralization Quotes

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Arguments that prove too much prove nothing.

All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

What I really don't like is oversimplification.

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; ... the wise does neither.

People tend to simplify things.

People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.

I was terrified of being on camera. I was worried that whatever I would say, people would assume I'm speaking for every Muslim, every Pakistani, or every Middle Eastern person. That's a lot of pressure. But it also got me excited about what could be done, because I am a representative for people who are underrepresented.

I just don't believe in generalisations.

You just have to get one misstep - that's an easy way to fall into caricature. Bad caricature.

Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.

For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Damn all false dichotomies to hell

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.

We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.

Common mission trap for companies: trying to be all things to all people at all times.