Quotes About Definition

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

M]any people are so quick to classify events as miraculous that it devalues the word.

I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

I have a very specific definition of censorship. Censorship must be done by the government or it's not censorship.

For me, character comes from a specific condition or situation. I cannot really define a character outside that situation.

The definition of hate speech in some countries is problematic.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Everyone, regardless of the mode of expression, has a constitutionally protected right to free speech. But when it comes to freedom of the press, I believe we must define a journalist and the constitutional and statutory protections those journalists should receive.

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

I'm a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.

The government does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage, which is part of its broad definition of how it protects American national security.

Spin is 'something is beautiful because we say it's beautiful.'

Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down.

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

You've read the Torah, right? So you know the Torah defines marriage as being between one man and one woman.

There should essentially be no limits to the voluntary definition of marriage.

I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but certainly not marriage.

There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.