Notion Quotes

1394 Notion quotes by 1048 unique authors

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by… — Ada Lovelace
I don't agree with the notion that some are putting out there, including scientists, that somehow there are actions we can take today that would… — Marco Rubio
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… — Mark Rothko
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the… — Poul Anderson
In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic… — Poul Anderson
To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all… — Bel Kaufman
I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism,… — Mahatma Gandhi
That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those… — Mahatma Gandhi
In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether, — Ingrid Newkirk
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor
We must abandon the unworkable notion that it is morally reprehensible for some countries to pursue weapons of mass destruction, yet morally acceptable for others… — Mohamed ElBaradei
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish… — Edward Hoagland
Don't buy into the notion that mistakes can somehow be avoided. They can't be. — John C. Maxwell
But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me… — Peter Bogdanovich
A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires… — Morihei Ueshiba
This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know… — Seth Godin
I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be scientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God… — George Bernard Shaw
To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that… — Evangeline Lilly
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the… — Augustus William Hare
Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and… — Laozi
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine… — Robert A. Heinlein
Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform… — John Perry Barlow
Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay… — Anna Quindlen
I haven't the faintest notion what possible revolutionary role white hetero- sexual men could fulfill, since they are the very embodiment of reactionary- vested-interest-power. But… — Robin Morgan

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