5,159 Quotes About Mean

Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."

Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt - less and less sharp and biting into you.

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

Poetry - poiesis means a thing made.

I was more worn out with the "Odyssey" than it was with the "Iliad." I mean, just comparing those two - you can see how it's changing, how the language of the "Iliad" is somehow monstrously new - and that language of the "Odyssey" is more comfortable, even for us.

By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

In mathematics we find the primitive source of rationality; and to mathematics must the biologists resort for means to carry out their researches.