Quotes About Categorization

Diagnostic fads simply relabel patients that psychiatrists have always seen.

Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.

Also, that men fall into two classes--those who forget views and those who remember them, even in small rooms.

And, in the end, we must resist Ibsen's ghosts, the 'old ideas and beliefs' that cage us in categories and assumptions about who we are and what we are capable of and blind us to the beauty of others, never forgetting that categorization refers only to the different conditions under which we live; it doesn't capture the essence of who we are.

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Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds.

A second technician gauges Werner's eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. Werner's color is himmelblau, sky blue. To assess his hair color, the man snips a lock of hair from Werner's head and compares it to thirty or so other locks clipped to a board, arrayed darkest to lightest. "Schnee," the man mutters, and makes a notation. Snow. Werner's hair is lighter than the lightest color on the board.

I think that it's human nature to categorize and label things. That's generally the way that the medical and psychological professions work. You look at elements of what you have, and you are able to categorize it, and then you can cure it. That's generally what works.

Unfortunately, sometimes our leaders, for their own political purposes, want us to think in terms of categories and groupings. Our group vs. this group vs. another group. This must end.

I understand it for marketing purposes, but I've always hated defining myself with a genre. Nothing feels broad enough.

I am very clear that I am not a feminist. It puts you into a category and I don't like that.

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

Sometimes those labels that the league puts on players aren't right.

Defining something being a Fleetwood Mac song is calling it a Fleetwood Mac song, you know? Nothing becomes Fleetwood Mac until that's what you call it.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

I just don't think most people put myself and Robert Frost in the same category.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy.

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

To categorize some people as indigenous and others as alien, to argue about the identity of the first inhabitants of the subcontinent, and to try and sort out these categories for the remote past, is to attempt the impossible.

Sooner or later people are bound to classify you as something. I

the fun of keeping things in them. He was not a very tidy boy in general, but he did like arranging things in cupboards and drawers and then opening them later and finding them just as he'd left them.

We put the labels we choose on things [...], and for our own purposes. That is the long and the short of it.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and the kind who don't.