John Dewey  - Quotes

 Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account. 

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Socrates  - Quotes

 The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. 

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Aristotle  - Quotes

 Wit is educated insolence. 

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Madeleine L'Engle  - Quotes

 An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections [....]



Reticulated: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities.
 

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