Famous quotes containing the words definition and/or examples:
“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 (1842–1910)
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)