Quote by Eric Hoffer
We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume t

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious. – Eric Hoffer

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There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. – Eric Hoffer

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It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. – Eric Hoffer

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A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. – Patrick Kavanagh

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. – G. W. F. Hegel

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess. – William Blake

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