Our Notions Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with…
— William Hazlitt
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The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him.
— Lucretia Mott
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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
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Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information…
— Albert Einstein
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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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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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Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them…
— William Melmoth
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We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
— William Hazlitt
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If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions…
— Tom Robbins
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Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We…
— Nhat Hanh
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those…
— Jasper Fforde
Who Wrote These Our Notions Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Our Notions Quotes as follows: