Notion Quotes

1394 Notion quotes by 1048 unique authors

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion. — Ryan Phillippe
Immoral: Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be… — Ambrose Bierce
I am against nationalism, and I am against patriotism. They are both the dark side. It is time not simply to redefine a kinder-and-gentler patriotism,… — Robert Jensen
It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the… — Alfred Loisy
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. — Vance Packard
Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the… — Marvin Harris
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence… — Angela Carter
To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And, at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,… — Jack Handey
It is a juvenile notion that a society needs a lofty purpose and a shining vision to achieve much. Both in the market place and… — Eric Hoffer
On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as… — Dalai Lama
Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which… — Carl L. Becker
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique) are often too… — Alexander Alekhine
I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy… — Jennifer Beals
It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack against… — Daniel Ellsberg
Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is… — Robert Fulghum
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place.… — Joseph Rykwert
It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The terms good and bad indicate no positive quality in things regarded in themselves, but are merely modes of thinking or notions, which we form… — Baruch Spinoza
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event,… — David Eddings
As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any… — Ernest Hemingway
To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not… — Aldous Huxley
Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a… — Jane Mayer
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others. — Patrick J. Kennedy
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. — Brother Lawrence

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