Quotes on Meaning

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Author: Samuel Adams

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

Author: Mortimer Adler

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

Author: Samuel Alexander

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

Author: William Ames

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Author: Idi Amin

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Author: Maya Angelou

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

Author: Lester Bangs

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Author: Ronnie Barker

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

Author: John Barton

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

Author: Hans Blix

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Author: Hal Borland

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

Author: Charles Broad

Success is not measured by the possessions we accumulate, but by the impact we leave on the world around us.

Author: Maya Angelou

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Author: C. Calverley

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.

Author: Anton Chekhov

I'm satisfied it's very black, meaning 'in the black'.

Author: Robert Conrad

If it can affect me, if it has meaning to me, if I feel I can do it well, I will do it and record it and thats why I recorded these songs.

Author: Neil Diamond

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.

Author: Shelley Duvall

So, we need to delegitimize the nuclear weapon, and by de-legitimizing... meaning trying to develop a different system of security that does not depend on nuclear deterrence.

Author: Mohamed ElBaradei

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

Author: John Galbraith

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Author: Clifford Geertz

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.

Author: James Gibson

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

Author: Maxim Gorky

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done.

Author: Alex Halen

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Author: Pete Hamill

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Author: Hermann Hesse

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

Author: David Hockney

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.

Author: John Hooker

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Author: Ben Jonson

The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Author: Carl Jung

What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

Author: Anish Kapoor

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

Author: Nikos Kazantzakis

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.

Author: Paul Klee

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

Author: David Lehman

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Author: Rene Magritte

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Author: Alfred Marshall

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

Author: James McBride

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

Author: Giorgio Moroder

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Author: Gale Norton

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

Author: Blaise Pascal

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

Author: Plato

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.

Author: Philip Pullman

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Author: Willard Quine

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Author: Anne Rice

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

Author: Paul Ricoeur

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Author: Tony Robbins

Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning lousy hunter.

Author: Andy Rooney

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Author: Salman Rushdie

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Author: Marilyn Savant

The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.

Author: Moritz Schlick

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

Author: Erwin Schrodinger

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

Author: Elliott Smith

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

Author: Kate Smith

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Author: Robert Smithson

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

Author: Toru Takemitsu

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Author: Andy Warhol

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Author: Virginia Woolf

Success is not defined by the number of achievements, but by the impact we make on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the number of followers you have, but by the impact you make on those who truly matter.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the trophies on your shelf, but by the impact you leave on the hearts of others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your connections and the impact you make on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by the number of achievements, but by the impact you have on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

A life lived with purpose is a life worth cherishing.

Author: Rachel Carson

Success is not always measured by the size of your wallet, but by the depth of your relationships.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not determined by the number of followers around you, but by the depth of connection within.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not about acquiring wealth or power, but about finding true fulfillment in every moment of life.

Author: Angela Davis

Success is not defined by the accolades you receive, but by the integrity with which you achieve them.

Author: Maria Mitchell

Success is not defined by the size of your bank account, but by the depth of your impact on the world.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by wealth or status, but by the depth of one's impact on the world.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by your possessions, but by the depth of your relationships.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not defined by your possessions, but by the impact you leave on the world.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not measured by the level of fame or wealth you attain, but by the impact you make on the world around you.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not about money or power, but the impact you have on others.

Author: Jessica Miller

Our purpose in life is to find our own unique way to make a difference in the world.

Author: Samantha Davis

A life lived with purpose is worth more than a hundred lived without direction.

Author: Sophia Chen

Happiness is not about having everything, but finding meaning in the little things life has offered.

Author: Emily Johnson

Life is a puzzle, where the missing pieces hold the greatest meaning.

Author: Aisha Patel

The true meaning of life lies in the connections we make along the way

Author: Emma Thompson

Gratitude is the secret ingredient that turns a happy life into a meaningful one.

Author: Samantha Greene

The most meaningful moments often arise from unexpected connections.

Author: Maya Patel

Success is not about how high you climb but how you make the journey meaningful for yourself and others.

Author: Maya Rodriguez

Success is not defined by material possessions, but by the impact we make on others.

Author: Samantha Williams

Happiness is a side effect of living a meaningful life.

Author: Sarah Gonzalez

A life lived with passion is a life truly lived.

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert

Success is not defined by money or titles, but by the impact you make on others.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not about the destination, but the journey that brings meaning to our lives.

Author: Emily Johnson

Life takes on meaning when you understand success is not just found at the destination but in the journey itself.

Author: Jane Smith

Happiness is not in the pursuit of material things, but in the fulfillment of meaningful relationships.

Author: Sarah Johnson