Quotes About Classifying

#1. Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.

William James

#2. Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#3. I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.

Marshall McLuhan

#4. Are we going to get out of here, do you think?" "Oh, they'll have to release us sooner or later. Prisoners of war, which is how they must be classifying us, have to be released at the end of hostilities. There are international rules. I was a prisoner of war before, nearly forty years ago.

Lucy Beckett

#5. Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Annie Jump Cannon

#6. But dividing the mind into "biological" and "psychological" is as fallacious as classifying light as a particle or a wave. The natural world makes no promise to align itself with preconceptions that humans find parsimonious or convenient. (167)

Thomas Lewis

#7. A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

Thomas Sowell

#8. Miracles can happen when we can keep our consciousness away from analyzing and classifying one another.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#9. Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

Thomas Szasz

#10. the U.S. government has a long history of overclassifying information that shouldn't be classified at all - and keeping information classified until long after any justification for classifying it has disappeared.

Rosa Brooks

#11. The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.

Norman Douglas

#12. Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose.

William James

#13. Classifying and judging people promotes violence.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#14. Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

Antonio Damasio

#15. As soon as one stops searching for knowledge, or if one imagines that it need not be creatively sought in the depths of the human spirit but can be assembled extensively by collecting and classifying facts, everything is irrevocably and forever lost.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#16. the way you crib won't magnify the sympathy you get, but will only assist others in classifying your character. Look,

Keshav Aneel

#17. It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

E. O. Wilson

#18. I'm not sure that I care for the idea of strangers examining my daily habits and folkways, studying my language, inspecting my costume, questioning me about my religion, classifying my artifacts, investigating my sexual rites and evaluating my chances for cultural survival. So I lived alone.

Edward Abbey

#19. This language is from the head. It is a way of mentally classifying people into varying shades of good and bad, right and wrong. Ultimately, it provokes defensiveness, resistance, and counterattack. It is a language of demands.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#20. We are so accustomed to classifying judgments, arguments and deeds in terms of morality that we forget how relatively new the notion was in the culture of the Enlightenment.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#21. When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

Johnny Carson

#22. Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.

Paul Ricoeur

#23. Maybe they were all either pimps or whores. Maybe it was life's classifying principle, maybe I had seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker.

Robert B. Parker

#24. Do not take yearly results too seriously. Instead, focus on four or five-year averages.

Warren Buffett

#25. I sometimes play different kinds of music to see where the performers end up. I play one genre. Then something else when I do it again. It really helps.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#26. I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

Sara Bareilles

#27. Silence and patience are not merely cowardliness, its a symbol of strength.

Rahul Rawat

#28. The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone.

Carl Jung

#29. To use the past to justify the present is bad enough - but it's just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

Amitav Ghosh

#30. I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff.

Justin Theroux

#31. Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#32. Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?"
Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I sighed. People who didn't heart books didn't understand.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#33. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama's handicap is Joe Biden.

Jay Leno