Definitions Quotations | Page 6

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations of their words; which settling of significations, they call definitions, and place them in the beginning of their reckoning.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.

The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

Definition is the death of discovery.

By definition, as a Prime Minister I cannot be a liar.

I'm very competitive. I just go with what engages or fascinates me in my work and that's it. I have no definition; I just love to do it.

By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political.

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 battle for the world is the battle for definitions.

A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition.

How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Embryonic cells, by their very definition, are not from your body. Right now, inside your body, you have everything necessary to build what you need now.

Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

The definition of art has to shift whenever an innovator appears.

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

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

The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.

If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's “Beloved” where she says, “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined” - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong

I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing one thing when I'm thought to be doing another.

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention.

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Religion is, by definition, interpretation; and by definition, all interpretations are valid. However, some interpretations are more reasonable than others.

The court's injected itself in the definition of marriage, deciding whether or not human life is worth protecting, permitting government to transfer private property from one person to another, even interpreting the Constitution on the basis of foreign and international laws.

In separateness only does love learn definition.

Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.

Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.

I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.

I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.

After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.

Mastery is an elusive concept. You never know when you achieve it absolutely and it may not help you to feel you've attained it. We can recognize it more readily in others than we can in ourselves. We have to discover our own definition of it.

I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to contend with. I am a living evidence in the development of language.

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.

If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

One right and honest definition of business is mutual helpfulness.

I cannot accept the definition of collective good as articulated by a privileged minority in society, especially when that minority is in power.

I'm sorry, could you please tell me what the definition of the word "is" is?

My definition of love is: Being willing to die for someone, that you yourself want to kill.

Perhaps there is supranatural: reason beyond the normal definitions of fact or data-based logic; something that only makes sense if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.

Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.

Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

A few rules include all that is necessary for the perfection of the definitions, the axioms, and the demonstrations, and consequently of the entire method of the geometrical proofs of the art of persuading.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.

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.

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

Great genius you already have. The super conscious mind is invariably triggered by definition, and by decisiveness.

Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action."

HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a great guy.He endorsed me because I'm the best in immigration. And I think by his definition of the best, it's the best and the toughest.

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

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.

As long as imperialism exists it will, by definition, exert its domination over other countries. Today that domination is called neocolonialism.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

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

In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one's definition of one's lifetime; define oneself

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!