Generalizations

(100 votes)   Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems.

Thomas B. Macaulay
1800-1859, American Essayist and Historian

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(98 votes)   An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Georg Hegel
1770-1831, German Philosopher

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