A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“[T]he thought was meaningless, an attempt to quantify direct experience.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Those who can, do; those who can't learn classification and cataloguing.” — Ian Sansom Copy Share Image
The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it. — George P. Shultz Copy Share Image
“Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification… — Joseph H. Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in… — Kenneth Burke Copy Share Image
Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they… — Serge Monast Copy Share Image
It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
The kitchen clock is more convenient than sidereal time. We must use the popular category, as we do by the Linnæan classification,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we… — Joseph Paxton Copy Share Image
It's tough to know who's better in cliff diving. Like, you see a guy diving off a cliff and you go, Oh,… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Often they were arranged according to the whim of the owner, as scientific classification was still in flux, new systems evolving all… — Kim Todd Copy Share Image
On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness -… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Ministry of Magic (M.O.M) Classification. xxxxx Known wizard killer / impossible to train or domesticate / or anything Hagrid likes — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals. — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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