Notion Quotes

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

Playboy isn't like the downscale, male bonding, beer-swilling phenomena that is being promoted now by (some men's magazines). My whole notion was the romantic connection between male and female.

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

I had held a notion that I could make a pretty fair appraisal of the worth of an opponent simply by speaking to him on the first tee and taking a good measuring look into his eyes.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America.

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.

The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce the social order.

As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

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.

It takes a motion to notion and it takes a notion to motion.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

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.

The notion of infinity is our greatest friend; it is also the greatest enemy of our peace of mind.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.

There is a notion that creative people are absent-minded, reckless, heedless of social customs and obligations. It is, hopefully, true for they are in another world altogether.

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

Change is a pesky notion. For many folks, the biggest challenge in changing their eating habits isn't money, time, or education; it's reframing their connection between food and love.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

We keep thinking of deity as a kind of fact, somewhere; God as a fact. God is simply our own notion of something that is symbolic of transcendence and mystery. The mystery is what’s important.

Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

Revenge is a particularly interesting concept, especially the notion of whether or not it exists outside of just an abstract idea.

There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the Christian notion of creation from nothing.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about.

First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.

I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.