Best Classifying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.”

“You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diagnosis.”

Love Relationships Marriage Ignorance Add Divorce Insanity Sanity Diagnosis Stereotypes Ocd Adhd Mental Disorders Marriage 101 Classifying Mental Bias Generatlizing

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“I will always be a "nothing," for things and beings with true depth are far from all kinds of rigid labels, hollow terms, ordinary diagnoses, clear definitions, narrow classifications, pontificating explanations, societal categories, and those poisonous human languages that have existed, exist, and will exist.”

Language Experience Labels Defining Nothing Definition Labeling Classifying Label Explaination

Author:Sov8840

“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.”

World Way Form Culture Interest Critics Academic Surprising Classifying

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg's early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One might just as well dispose of Beethoven as a late-classicist post-Haydnerian.”

Wells Might Wealth Deals Late Historical Critics Posts Early Work Classifying Schoenberg Classicists

Book:Essays on Music

Source: Essays on Music

“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.”

People Way Language Communication Demand Resistance Shade Provoking Good And Bad Nonviolent Communication Defensiveness Classifying

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

Given Issues Serious Thoughtful Finding Yourself Humorists Serious Issues Classifying

Author:Johnny Carson

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

Way Purpose Particular Classifying

Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“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.”

People Thinking Should Shows Black White Majority Polls Asian Hispanic Black White Census Classifying

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.”

Ifs Thinking Mind States Today Past Space Gone Virtue Modern Activity Gains Notion Arrogance Decay Time And Space Passivity Banality Profundity Classifying

Author:Russell Jacoby

“Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can fall in love with the record and so can her mom. I tend to gravitate towards artists that are timeless and don't sound dated.”

People Years Firsts Looks Littles Made Ideas Problem Artist Fall Girl Sound Records Rocks Mom Falling In Love Starting Folks Pops Timeless Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds Classifying

Author:Courtney Jaye

“Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It views race and gender privilege as the root of all evil, while ignoring the role played by dogmatic ideologies held by all genders. And it is unfalsifiable - to its adherents, criticism and rejection of the theory actually demonstrate its truth, by showing how deeply we all have internalized our oppression.”

“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.”

World Dream Mines Findings Species Exploring Biosphere Classifying

Author:E. O. Wilson

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

Feelings Disease Behavior Errors Fishes Logical Whales Classifying

Author:Thomas Szasz

“Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.”

Humans Seems Might Today Process Sin Century Acceptance Strange Calling Shame Sexuality Human Life Historian Scholar Associates Cult Paganism Pagan Fertility Conceiving Classifying

Book:When God Was A Woman

Source: When God Was A Woman

“What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.”

“In my opinion the separation of the c- and ac-stars is the most important advancement in stellar classification since the trials by Vogel and Secchi ... To neglect the c-properties in classifying stellar spectra, I think, is nearly the same thing as if a zoologist, who has detected the deciding differences between a whale and a fish, would continue classifying them together.”

Ifs Thinking Important Together Science Stars Differences Opinion Importance Property Fishes Separation Trials Neglect Advancement Whales Classification Stellar Zoologist Classifying

Author:Ejnar Hertzsprung

“It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect the historical development of races from different standpoints; and that the results of the three classifications are not comparable, because the historical facts do not affect the three classes of phenomena equally. A consideration of all these classes of facts is needed when we endeavour to reconstruct the early history of the races of mankind.”

“Classifying and judging people promotes violence.”

People Violence Judging Communication Nonviolent Communication Judging People Classifying

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

Happens Consciousness Communication Miracle Nonviolent Communication Analyzing Classifying Miracles Can Happen

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is cruel as well as unconstitutional. Classifying some families, and especially their children, as of lesser value should be repugnant to all those in this nation who profess to believe in "family values."”

Should Believe Wells Children Values Nations Sex Parent Class Couple Labels Family Values Marriage Equality Unconstitutional Classifying Adoptive Parents

Author:Stephen Reinhardt

“Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.”

Universe Stars Study Structure Classifying

Author:Annie Jump Cannon

“My understanding is that espionage means giving secret or classified information to the enemy. Since Snowden shared information with the American people, his indictment for espionage could reveal (or confirm) that the US Government views you and me as the enemy.”

“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.”

Language Easy Conditions Expression Ordinary Meaningful Carrie Employed Classifying

Author:Paul Ricoeur

“People are in the habit of classifying life’s activities into those which are mundane and those which are religious. Remember, though, only those things done for the sake of Allah are the ‘religious’ things. Everything that is done for other than Allah – however ‘religious’ it may seem – is a worldly act… If he earns thousands of pounds to support his family and to spend for the cause of Allah, seeking only Allah’s pleasure, it is a highly spiritual act.”

People Ifs May Done Seems Remember Spiritual Causes Religious Pleasure Support Habit Activity Sake Seeking Pounds Worldly Mundane Things Done Classifying

Author:Khurram Murad

“The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.”

Knows Giving Firsts Ideas Science Names Known Steps Objects Foundation Notion Appropriate First Steps Distinguished Classification Classifying

Author:Carl Linnaeus