Animals Quote by Armin van Buuren

People like to understand and categorize things in order to understand.

— Max Riemelt

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

— Roger Ebert

“All organisms can make the most basic distinctions--between food and not-food, danger and safety, light and dark, same-species and not-same. But only people can…

— Scott Huler

“Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates…

— Ani DiFranco

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the…

— Arfi Lamba

“When you try to label anything, you are limiting possibilities. We need to think more about perceiving things in the big picture instead of…

— Kathy L. Patrick

Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.

— Eddie Huang

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

— Kurt Elling

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

— William James

... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels…

— Neale Donald Walsch