Quotes About Definition

When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,' I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.

The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.

Cuando yo uso una palabra -insistió Humpty Dumpty con un tono de voz más bien desdeñoso- quiere decir lo que yo quiero que diga…, ni más ni menos.

Quando eu uso uma palavra', disse Humpty Dumpty num tom bastante desdenhoso, 'ela significa exatamente o que eu quero que signifique: nem mais nem menos

Cuando yo utilizo una palabra significa lo que yo quiero que signifique, ni más ni menos.

I suppose it's all in how you define patriotism. Some say that's only saying good things about your country. Others say that it's speaking against what you feel is wrong with your country and trying to make a change.

By definition, his job as an enigmalogist meant he needed to keep an open mind about anything, no matter how strange; his resistance, even skepticism, about the possibility of a phenomenon like lycanthropy was something he couldn't explain.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

It's not what you do that matters. It's not what you say. There's nothing that is not holy or spiritual. Be beyond definition, beyond categorization, be absorbed.

Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.

The definition of insanity is doing the same experiment and expecting different results.

If something does not exist, then it makes it very difficult to give it a definition.

You remind me o another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reasons for what one believes by instinct.

Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is So. Non-Truth, most succinctly defined is: That Which Is Not So.

articulate and define what has previously remained implicit or unsaid;

If we're to understand anything, we have to simplify, which means we have to make boundaries.

When we define a problem as a disease, we often act as if a diagnosis were a solution: paste on a label and then end the discussion as if we've accomplished something. But then nothing ever changes.

The Nerds became so popular that the word nerd was added to some dictionaries.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.