Semantic Difference Quotes

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Your words and my words are the same, but not our meaning.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Do you have a record contract? I have a recording agreement. What's the difference? One is an agreement and one is a contract! I am a man who deals by ear.

For some reason cowboy sounds better than cowman.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.

We were talking about urban youth. And by urban I mean lives in a city not urban as in black like white people use it.

Coining a term is not the same as creating a field!

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet themeanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.

Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.

What I love about L.A. is that people say they're going for a hike, which just means a walk. It's a stroll, but if you walk in L.A., it's a hike.