Quotes About Notion

Vida" é noção que a gente completa seguida assim, mas só por lei duma ideia falsa. Cada dia é um dia.

I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure.

I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself seems increasingly obscure.

there is some sweet seduction in feeling another admires us—a notion so flattering that some return of esteem takes place without our quite being aware

To us he is no more a personNow but a whole climate of opinion.

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.

A good notion for a novel is far too precious to waste; it must be caught the moment it flashes into mental view, or it will escape to the brain of some other writer who really doesn't deserve it.

Freedom.' He pauses a moment to reflect on the F-word. 'Sometimes I think it's an idea that enslaves us. We're never free from hungering for the notion that we can even have freedom. When perhaps it's the very idea of it that causes us to suffer.

Deus sive Natura: God or Nature. The phrase encompassed Spinoza's radical notion that God and nature might be one and the same. It was the springing-off point for Spinoza's mind-bending contentions about extension, determinism, and more.

Then must we abandon our accustomed notion of a woman's kindness, and forge a new one.

he knew that fate was only a mythological concept

I don't have visions. It was a presentiment. A feeling, an impression.

because you symbolize his cockeyed

God does not need us to protect him. Many of us perhaps need to have our notion of God deepened and expanded. It is often said, half in jest, that God created man in his own image and man has returned the compliment, saddling God with his own narrow prejudices and exclusivity, foibles and temperamental quirks. God remains God, whether God has worshippers or not.

had no notion how much resemblance there was between what he was doing, and the original beliefs of the Iroquois

The sacrifice," she said, suddenly impatient. "It gives ye a greater range. And at least a bit of control, so ye have some notion how far ye're going. How did ye get to and fro three times, without blood?

Grey felt his brows shoot up. "Green plants stop scurvy?" he blurted. "Wherever did you get that notion?

He reached into the drawer of his desk, and pulled out my fan, white silk embroidered with violets. "This is yours, I suppose? I found it in the corridor." His mouth twisted wryly as he looked at me. "I see. I suppose, then, you will have some notion of how your appearance earlier this evening affected me." "I doubt it very much," I said.

What rules the world is idea, because ideas define the way reality is perceived

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

In addition to removing our democratically elected government, Israel wants to sow dissent among Palestinians by claiming that there is a serious leadership rivalry among us. I am compelled to dispel this notion definitively.