Human mind Quote by Lois Mai Chan

A classification is a definition comprising a system of definitions.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which…

— Barrows Dunham

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

— William James

In the first stage of insight-building, all that researchers can do is observe phenomena. Second, they classify the phenomena in a way that helps…

— Clayton Christensen

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

“Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. At best, it…

— China Miéville

Classification is now a pejorative statement. You know, these classifiers look like "dumb fools." I'm a classifier. But I'd like to use a word…

— William Wilson Morgan

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

— Jonah Goldberg

The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are…

— Carl Linnaeus

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which…

— Erich Fromm

“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