Well known Quote by John Stuart Mill

“Definitions only belong to those who need them.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“People say we are defined by the choices that we make;”

— T. Greenwood

“To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see…

— Michael Oakeshott

“Definitions create conditions.”

— Alfred Korzybski

“We are defined by those things we lack: the things we strive for and the things we require to make us whole.”

— Raymond Bolton

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

— Georges Braque

“If you could come up with four things that define you,”

— Melissa Foster

“When we predicate of any thing an abstract name, we affirm of the thing that it is one or other of these five things;…

— John Stuart Mill

A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

— Edmund Burke

Define yourself or be defined.

— Antero Alli

“We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourselves.”

— Lizzie Velásquez

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized…

— John Rawls