The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.' — John Adams Copy Share Image
In every society, the definitions of sanity and madness are arbitrary - are, in the largest sense, political. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The vision of extraordinary achievement is,by definition, a few steps beyond consensus and conventional logic — Scott Belsky Copy Share Image
I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important,… — Kristen Bell Copy Share Image
On Facebook, the definition of great content is not the content that makes the most sales, but the content that people most… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I absolutely believe that what you sing and how you act when you're in this position, should be the definition of who… — Cody Johnson Copy Share Image
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws… — Elizabeth S. Anderson Copy Share Image
The best definition I have ever heard of a vocation is that it's the place where your great joy meets the world's… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
It's drones over Brooklyn, you blink, you could get tooken, And now you're understanding the definition of 'Crooklyn.' Pigs on parade, but… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must - must - redistribute wealth from the richer among… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Many people will tell you that an expert is someone who knows a great deal about the subject. To this I would… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and… — James Agee Copy Share Image
There are broader and narrower definitions of the new economy. The narrow version defines the new economy in terms of two principal… — Laurence Meyer Copy Share Image
By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist,… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
There may well be a few extremists out there somewhere calling for a militant, women-only utopia, but why should this be the… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Over time, I have come to this simple definition of leadership: Leadership is getting results in a way that inspires trust. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
TWO-MINUTE WARNING: When the baby's face turns red and she begins to make those familiar grunting noises. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting. — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' — Norman Spinrad Copy Share Image
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
The definition of the word nerd has changed. It's now any attractive person with a hobby. The loneliness component is no longer… — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable. — Thomas Hoving Copy Share Image
Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up… — Gino Severini Copy Share Image
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
