Be good Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Be good Definitions Good thing Good things Ifs Language Use Would be
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There is not built-in meaning to anything, we are free to add any meaning we choose to give it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning. — William Safire Copy Share Image
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is important that we realize that words have meanings far beyond the dictionary definition. — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Most of us want to live in harmony and peace and be good to others. Right now, however, the world is in a very… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are. — Paula Abdul Copy Share Image
All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. — Paul Arden Copy Share Image
There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things. — Randy Anderson Copy Share Image
