Quotes About Notions

We all have our notions of sport. If I'd wanted to make my living climbing mountains, I wouldn't have gone into publishing. Most of the time, you're sitting in a dark room reading a manuscript.

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.

He was too tired to take in all of the consequences of the story; they led him into unaccustomed areas of thought, toward abstract notions more suited for discussion by the officials of the court than by him.

Strangely, Indians travelling outside the subcontinent do not seem to have left itineraries of where they went or descriptions of what they saw. Distant places enter the narratives of storytelling only very occasionally. Notions

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

To every religion the gods of other religions are only notions concerning God, but its own conception of God is to it God himself, the true God.

Words belong to the person who wrote them. There are few simpler ethical notions than this one, particularly as society directs more and more energy and resources toward the creation of intellectual property.

I am not to know the contents of his Letter. The hearts of us women, when we are urged to give way to a clandestine and unequal address, or when inclined to favour such a one, are apt, and are pleaded with, to rise against the notions of bargain and sale. Smithfield bargains, you Londoners call them:

My Mother was an excellent woman: She had instilled into my earliest youth, almost from infancy, notions of moral rectitude, and the first principles of Christianity; now rather ridiculed than inculcated in our youth of condition.

If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much. But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Aristotle says clearly, and St. Thomas follows him, that corporeal similitudes excite the memory more easily than the naked notions themselves.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Third, the intellect abstracts from even the quantitative features and considers only the most general ways in which a thing might be characterized Ã¢â'¬â€œ in terms of notions such as that of substance, attribute, essence, existence, etc.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean to constitute insulting, abusing, and harming deliberately in a distinctive and discriminative feature and context; whereas, supporting such notions and attempts is a universal crime.

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

We've learned that quiet isn't always peace and the norms and notions of what just is, isn't always justice.

Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones.

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.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

The notions of biblical infallibility and inerrancy first appeared in the 1600s, and became insistently affirmed by some Protestants only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

But romantic notions will not do: I want her to have true notions.' 'Very right: but in my judgment, what the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.