Quotes About Categorization

All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

If a piece of music is under three minutes long, it's rock. Over three minutes, it's classical.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

Ideas are universal, the names and titles we give them are not.

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

There are two kinds of observers in science: splitters and lumpers. I've never been much of a splitter; in my heart of hearts, I'm a lumper.) In

The students would burn out if forced to spend their entire day amidst the social intensity of the cafeteria and hallway. Fortunately the school authorities also schedule dormant periods, called classes, during which the students can rest their minds and take a break from the pressures of social categorization. Students correctly understand, though adults appear not to, that socialization is the most intellectually demanding and morally important thing they will do in high school.

The initial letter in the profile means either introversion or extroversion. -The second letter in the mix will end up being either be the letter "S" to stand for sensing or the letter "N" for intuition. -Next, the third letter is either an "F" to stand for feeler or the letter "T" to stand for thinker. -Finally, the fourth letter is either a "P" to stand for perceiver or "J" for judger.

Pooling people in race silos is akin to zoologists grouping raccoons, tigers, and okapis on the basis that they are all stripey." 8

bullshit job into five categories. I will call these: flunkies, goons, duct tapers, box tickers, and taskmasters.

Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

Wealth and intelligence should not be categorized as relatives.