I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question:… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I wasn't afraid of going places or doing new things. I would do just about anything or go anywhere. I'd get a… — Suzanne Vega Copy Share Image
O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is a ridiculous notion to assert that because the United States is on the offense, more people want to hurt us.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Without the basis in written law, and without the basis in our Constitution ratified by the people, judges can't make laws. And… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry,… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Last Supper is supposed to be thirteen men. Who is this woman? "Everyone misses it, our preconceived notions of this scene… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Rejoice in the works of your hands, be happy and thankful that you are valuable, that what you say and do insn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I visited New York in '63, intending to move there, but I noticed that what I valued about jazz was being discarded.… — Joe Sample Copy Share Image
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
