Quotes About Categorization

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

It occurred to him that all strongly accentuated classes, such as the military, divided men into two kinds: their own kind—and those without.

sono troppo giovane per essere vecchia e troppo vecchia per essere giovane! Non riesco a collocarmi in nessuna categoria.

Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.

We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.

It's fair to say that Wikipedia has spent far more time considering the philosophical ramifications of categorization than Aristotle and Kant ever did.

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.

We tend to put poems into factions. And it restricts our reading.

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Producers have a tendency to put you in a pigeonhole: 'What does this white, middle-aged preppy know about 1960s Kingston?'

'Easy listening' is a term that is often used incorrectly.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

Philosophy is the art of making distinctions.

Everybody tends to pigeonhole things they don't understand," said San Epifanio.

Zaten eninde sonunda her insan?n ba??na gelir bu, sizi s?n?fland?r?rlar.

Some libraries have separate areas for fiction and nonfiction. Mrs. Surlaw didn't believe in that sort of thing. After all, who was she to decide what was true and what wasn't?

o give a thing a name, a label, a handle; to rescue it from anonymity, to pluck it out of the Place of Namelessness, in short to identify it — well, that's a way of bringing the said thing into being.

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

but because she had at once classed him in that catalogue of bipeds whom Plato endeavors to withdraw from the appellation of men, and whom Diogenes designated as animals upon two legs without feathers. Unfortunately

There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.

Like their parents, the Korean children used more verbs than the English-speaking kids, while the English-speaking kids used more nouns. But in addition, the Korean-speaking children learned how to solve problems like using the rake to get the out-of-reach toy well before the English-speaking children. English speakers, though, started categorizing objects earlier than the Korean speakers.

The power to label is the power to destroy.

I like to stack them up on the shelf and move them about and rearrange them according to new parameters-height, color, thickness, provenance, publisher, author's nationality, subject matter, likelihood that I will ever read them. Then I put them back the way they were.