Definition Quotes

The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

My definition of winning at squash is playing and surviving, and I've never lost a match.

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

I like the theatre because you paint with broad strokes. To me the theatre is stretching its definition really far.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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

My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Well, fluffy shirts are, by definition, very comfortable.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.