Quotes About Suggestion

This suggests that there would be little plausibility to a suggestion to the effect that the remit of the philosophical man of letters, as understood by Hume, was to work towards the demise of the Christian religion.

La introducción en un campo de conocimiento es más un adoctrinamiento que un estímulo del pensamiento crítico-científico. El tiempo de aprendizaje —en la ciencia tanto como en la industria, el arte o la religión— se caracteriza por una «sugestión de ideas puramente autoritaria».

She was a tall woman with a wide smile, good tits and a way of licking mayonnaise out the corner of her mouth which suggested she might be equally good at licking mayonnaise out the corner of yours.

an inelasticity there that suggests... damage. Or anxiety.

I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.

If I were going to read one of your books, which one would you recommend?" "I'd recommend one by another author.

They themselves ordained their Fall. The first sort by their own suggestion fell Self-tempted, self-depraved.

You suggested this to her, didn't you." "Why do you say that?" "Because I don't know if you've ever met the Countess Nohamapetan, but she's about as sentimental as a fucking alligator.

I don't appreciate the suggestion that I'm acting irrationally," he said. "Then don't act irrationally

Cunt would be a good flavor of ice cream, Sealtest ought to work on it.

Swann's words might have had the result of distorting my eventual understanding of the sonata, as music is so versatile, too prone to suggestion to exclude entirely whatever somebody hints we might hear in it.

The fact was, I had just heard her laugh. And her laugh at once suggested the rosy flesh, the fragrant portals between which it had just made its way, seeming also, as strong, sensual and revealing as the scent of geraniums, to carry with it some microscopic particles of their substance, irritant and secret.

the more permanent colour of the flowers themselves, with the utmost profundity, evanescence, and mystery—with a quiet suggestion of infinity

he whispers, his eyes going velvet.

All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

I always advise people never to give advice.

Maybe it was something subliminal. Actually, it felt pretty liminal. Pro-liminal. Up-liminal?

Amena and Ratthi kept suggesting that I should help it "adjust" whatever that is. I knew if I was in its position, I'd want to be left alone. And if it hadn't even sat down in a chair voluntarily yet, it probably wasn't ready to talk. (I know this sounds suspiciously like a rationale I had come up with to keep from doing something I didn't want to do anyway, but hey, I can't help that.)

We could kill them,' Stone suggested, not helpfully. It would have been a tense moment, except Heart sighed impatiently and said, 'Line-grandfather, not in front of company.' Delin lifted a hand. 'I know Stone is merely stimulating discussion.' Pearl eyed Stone and lifted her spines. 'Perhaps Stone could stop doing that.

It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.