Definitions Quotes - Page 10

You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then liberalism is a form of insanity.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.

The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

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

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

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

The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

I can't give any absolute definition of what love is, or even whether it ought to exist.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

The definition of swagger, in my opinion, is you have to have that arrogance, that confidence that you are the best out there at all times.

What you do with your life is ascribing more to what you invest your time in. If you spend a lot of time on your phone, you're ascribing more worship to that. Anything can become, by that definition, some form of idol or deity or ultimate worth in your life.

IT'S a pitfall to have a definition of photography.

My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.

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.

Well, my definition of a tragedy is a clash between right and right.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.