Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or definition:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)