Notion Quotes

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

All of mathematics can be deduced from the sole notion of an integer; here we have a fact universally acknowledged today.

.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.

This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

Many Christians have the mistaken notion that eternal life begins when they die. But that is not biblically accurate. Eternal life begins when we are born again into the Kingdom of God.

I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.

Every country that has experimented with women in actual combat has abandoned the idea, and the notion that Israel uses women in combat is a feminist myth.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

The notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where you can live without working must be erased forever.

We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?

When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.

Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice NEVER attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is patriarchal and sets Judaism on its head.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.

The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.

The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.

A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

I certainly think the antagonism came out of a mistaken notion amongst the Indian people that the Chinese aggressed on us, and they thought, Indian people

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

Trump's victory is an opportunity for Israel to immediately retract the notion of a Palestinian state.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.