Famous quotes containing the words correct and/or definition:
“The taste is in my mouth a little; and this, no doubt, disqualifies me, to some extent, to form correct opinions.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.”
—William James (18421910)