Buddhism Quote by Frederick Lenz

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

“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

To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.

— St. Jerome

Not being categorized is like keeping your mouth shut. Categorization is linguistic, people trying to understand each other. Words are misty, language is a…

— Kalan Sherrard

i happen to enjoy categorization.

— Veronica Roth

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

— Frederick Lenz

I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.

— Rick Moody

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and its a totally understandable need because…

— Armin van Buuren

We, as a people, we have a strong need to categorize everything. We put labels on everything and it's a totally understandable need because…

— Armin van Buuren

Taxonomy (the science of classification) is often undervalued as a glorified form of filing-with each species in its folder, like a stamp in its…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The idea is to be unrestrained by categories.

— Kurt Elling

Categories are gibberish to me. I understand - it helps people organize their thoughts. But you can't go too far with it.

— Fiona Apple