Quotes About Definition

Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

What is problematic is that the young people are operating with a very limited definition of what it means to be Black, based largely on cultural stereotypes.

Can people of color be racist?" I reply, "The answer depends on your definition of racism." If one defines racism as racial prejudice, the answer is yes. People of color can and do have racial prejudices. However, if one defines racism as a system of advantage based on race, the answer is no.

At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance. That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.

A straightforward way of defining metaphysics is as the set of assumptions and practices present in the scientist's mind before he or she begins to do science. There is nothing wrong

The first is the hot dog. Memorably defined by H. L. Mencken as "a cartridge filled with the sweepings of abattoirs

That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.

It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is.

Kafir is not a neutral word. Instead, it defines a subhuman, so it is bigoted and biased.

If the fact that brutes abstract not be made the distinguishing property of that sort of animal, I fear a great many of those that pass for men must be reckoned into their number.

Ambiguity goes just so far and no further.

Definition destroys ... there's nothing definite in this world

Batter-Sea is not a word,' I said at last. 'It has no referent. There is nothing in the World corresponding to that combination of sounds.

I always got irritated when he told me he wasn't a doctor. Technically, he was a doctor. Being a doctor is like being a Jew; you can't get away from it.

What is man to decide what poetry is?

But know that how you see yourself doesn't define you. How I see you defines you. How you see yourself only defines your experience in the world.

You know what a word means when you know how to use it, not what its definition is. That is why we can understand and use all sorts of words that we struggle to define clearly if we are put on the spot and asked to do so.

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

will not be defined by my past, nor will I harbor bitterness toward those who wronged me. Instead I will pity them, for they do not know compassion or forgiveness.

whether this Court agrees that 'religion' meant monotheism or believes that it meant Christianity … it is clear that atheism, heathenism, and paganism were not part of the definition of

I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.

Qué entendés por snob? —preguntó Oliveira, más interesado. —Bueno —dijo la Maga, agachando la cabeza con el aire de quien presiente que va a decir una burrada—, yo me vine en tercera clase, pero creo que si hubiera venido en segunda Luciana hubiera ido a despedirme. —La mejor definición que he oído nunca —dijo Oliveira.