Aphorism Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aphorism Butlers Definition Definitions Ideas Language Nature Science Wall Wilderness
Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows. — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A definition of a term indicates its original meaning from the language the person reads, writes and speaks in daily life settings. However, an… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined,… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results then we must use certain… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
“Definition merely adds the locks to a world that is assumed to be closed.” — John Holloway Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A journal takes the place of a confidant, that is, of friend or wife; it becomes a substitute for production, a substitute for country… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
