Quotes About Notion

I'm not denying there's got to be a notion of right to get business done, but by God, any particular notion at any particular time will sooner or later get to be just like a stopper put tight in a bottle of water and thrown in a hot stove the way we kids used to do at school to hear the bang. The

Money is just an idea.

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them

I hope," she said, "that you didn't stay out of some foolish romantical notion." He looked down, staring at the tumbled bedclothes. "Such as?" "Saving my life." He looked up again with a grimace. "Naturally not. I usually throw my houseguests off the cliff.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

When I see it, this is what I see.

Without the cerebrum there would be no imagination, and hence no notion of God!

In our modern world, we often separate faith from practice. But the way of Jesus rejects this notion. Only living our faith offers the credibility to teach our faith. Anything less is less that the teachings of Christ.

Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one would have dreamed of considering political leaders anyone's servants. The job of the leader was to lead. But Christ invented the notion that the way to lead is by serving the needs of others, especially those who are the most needy.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe it.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.

I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.

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

Did you hear that, Daddy? Ms. Rothschild wants to go to city hall. Please disabuse her of this notion.

We waste an enormous amount of time making decisions based entirely on this fanciful notion that we like alternatives.

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

At worst, the notion that such utter disinterest represents a higher or more admirable standard is pagan hubris.

Sensible is a powerful notion to lay upon children. So much of the world does seem sensible, even when it may impede or even destroy our sense of self-esteem. Sensible looks easy because everyone claims to be doing it. But sensible, really, is some grown-up telling you that you can't have what you want. So

This is why I laugh at the notion of reconciling faith and science. Science is based on the premise that logic and reason can tell us the true nature of reality. Religion is based on the idea that when logic and reason don't support a predetermined view of reality, they are at fault.

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