Notion Quotes

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. (Robertson Davies)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. View quote
Robertson Davies
We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre. View quote
Uta Hagen
Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself. View quote
John Updike
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. View quote
Iris Murdoch
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 aspects of a human personality into a machine program... View quote
Poul Anderson
We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion. View quote
Jonathan Swift
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. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. (Lewis Mumford)
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer. View quote
Vance Packard
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. View quote
William Graham Sumner
It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back... View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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 to rely on them for security - and indeed to continue to refine their capacities and postulate plans for their use. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval. View quote
Peter Singer
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman's life. View quote
Beatrix Potter
Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself. (Judith Butler)
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things. View quote
Henry Fielding
What neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer