Dictionary Quotes

340 quotes by 286 authors

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. — Anatole France
Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had… — Faraaz Kazi
Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. — Socrates
I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary. — Kevin Sampsell
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with… — William James
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wises man. 'O,… — Robert Breault
Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition… — Igor Stravinsky
Could an explosion in a printing shop produce a dictionary? — Russell M. Nelson
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. — John Henry Newman
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to… — Mikhail Bakhtin
The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is… — Cal Thomas
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.) — Gerhard Richter
When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius… — William James
Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it. — Bryan Caplan
That's a waste of time. If you really understand Zen... you can use any book. You could use the Bible. You could use Alice in… — Alan Watts
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up… — Lydia Davis
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth… — Benjamin Tucker
Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled out for years.… — Percy Cerutty
What's my philosophy? In a word, integral. And what on earth â€” or in heaven â€” do I mean by integral? The dictionary meaning is… — Ken Wilber

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