Apt Quote by Frederick Pollock

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

— Michael Tippett

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book…

— Thomas George Bonney

To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word.

— Richard P. Feynman

One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its…

— Arthur Schuster

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows.

— Ernst Mayr

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.

— Warren Buffett

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

— William Safire

If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken.

— Ivanka Trump

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

— Larry Wall

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

— Renata Adler

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing…

— Isaac Asimov