Quotes about Definitions

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Tears are words the heart can't express — Gerard Way
Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on. — Stephen King, Bag of Bones
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do. — Dylan Thomas
Wit is educated insolence. — Aristotle
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. — Socrates
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents w — Alex Morritt, Lines & Lenses
Christ is our Friend; He is also the Righteous King. God is our Father; He is also the Sovereign Lord. Christianity can — Criss Jami
Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough s — David Berlinski
Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to b — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. — Abraham Lincoln
Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no o — Margaret Thatcher
Definitions and meanings change all the time. Truth and reality are very volatile, indefinite, multi layered and sometim — Erik Pevernagie
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. — Oscar Wilde
Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give — Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laug — Madeleine L'Engle
The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definit — bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the wh — John Dewey, How We Think