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289 Notions quotes by 250 unique authors
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. . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable…
— Laozi
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I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of…
— G. H. Hardy
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As for the imperialist countries, we should unite with their peoples and strive to coexist peacefully with those countries, do business with them and prevent…
— Mao Zedong
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... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice…
— Henri Lebesgue
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We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but…
— William Thurston
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If, as I believe, the ends of men are many, and not all of them are in principle compatible with each other, then the possibility…
— Isaiah Berlin
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I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden…
— John Flavel
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The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate…
— Nikola Tesla
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Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but…
— Pope Innocent I
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We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to…
— Jean Gebser
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I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open…
— George Takei
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My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
— Charles Baxter
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Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored…
— Ari Kiev
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It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Most of our notions about the world come from a set of assumptions which we take for granted, and which, for the most part, we…
— Werner Erhard
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A new education from birth onwards must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the law of nature and not on the…
— Maria Montessori
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Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing…
— Jonathan Swift
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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
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The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within,…
— Susanne Katherina Langer
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Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to…
— Samuel Johnson
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I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.
— Mark Strand
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When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the…
— Martin Amis
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts…
— Taslima Nasrin
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Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.
— David Attenborough
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