Definitions Quotes

One person's definition of evil is another person's different definition.

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

Ignorance is the mother of admiration.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist notion of buying and selling.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.'

... life, by definition, is never still.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless.

The definition of adulthood is that you want to sleep.

Definition of love: capacity to forgive endlessly.

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

Resistance by definition is self-sabotage.

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.

The common moral framework: Do anything as long as it does no harm to others. Problem: Whose definition of harm?

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years.

Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

I always wear a dinner jacket. I never have this definition of what goes for the morning or the evening or what works for the weekend.

My definition of sexy is someone who is expressing themselves honestly.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Artistic imagination must remain free. It is by definition free from any fidelity to circumstances, especially to the intoxicating circumstances of history.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

The definition of love is giving.

There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

Analytic It is clear that the definition of "logic" or "mathematics" must be sought by trying to give a new definition of the old notion of "analytic" propositions.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.