Quotes About Definition

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Man is a biped without feathers.

when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

my definition of the ideal man is 'that particular man with whom a woman happens to be in love at that particular time.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed. Weeds are not the other. Weeds are us.

The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

What money is worth is never taught in formative stages, thereby everyone defines it his own way, but the fact remains that no one is able to define it ever, but still runs after it blindly.

Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

Whenever you define who you are, you limit yourself to what you may potentially be.

Words cannot express as music does, that unsayable grace which cannot be defined. It leaps like light from mind to mind.