Dictionary Quote by John Ralston Saul Download Open image “Dictionary - opinion expressed as truth in alphabetical order.” — John Ralston Saul ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dictionary Opinion Order Truth
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“About 35-40% of the time, a player wants to create a word ending in a specific letter. This, however, is not the way we… — Richard D. Ekstrom Copy Share Image
Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Some people don't like the 'comeback' because that suggests they went somewhere, which they didn't. That isn't what I mean. In my mind, people… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There's two ways of dealing with fears of mortality. One of them is to hide, so every day you wear the same suit and… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection. (V -… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway,… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“Basic technical training is, of course, useful. But to treat it as anything more than that is to lock students into technology that will… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
There is no such word as item girl in the dictionary. People have created this word and I don't believe that I am an… — Shefali Zariwala Copy Share Image
“I hereby propose the term “miserize”, as a verb for misery – referring to “to cause misery”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's… — Jimmy Durante Copy Share Image
I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary. — Mae West Copy Share Image
Everybody talks about being a role model. But if you look up the word 'role' in a dictionary, it describes playing a part. Everything… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Weird itself, even in the dictionary, is just something that is different and unexplainable. A weirdo is someone who follows their heart. Im definitely… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
I'm not sure what to call 'Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary.' Nonfiction? Movie/toy fiction? But it is any Lego/'Star Wars' kid's dream. Call… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
