Notion Quotes - Page 7

• Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

  William J. Brennan

  Fundamentals, Use, Fairness

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• The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Infinity, Poetic, Creeds

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• I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.

  Emily Bronte

  Should, Existence

  Emily Bronte “Wuthering Heights”, Lulu.com

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• Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Order, White, People

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• 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.

  Robertson Davies

  Funny, Wise, Dog

  Robertson Davies (1968). “Marchbanks' almanack”

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• The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

  Hugh Hefner

  Men, Ideas, Single Life

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• 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.

  Thomas Huxley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.359, University of Georgia Press

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• No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Mother, Method

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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

  William James

  Truth, Opposites, Would Be

  William James (2007). “The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.217, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

  Walter Lippmann

  Political, Biographies, Balloons

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I don't like the idea of separating life and work. That notion seems dated and a bit alien to me.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Ideas, Geek, Aliens

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• I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.

  Toni Morrison

  Broken Heart, Running, Men

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.260, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  Iris Murdoch

  Survival, Comfort, Literature

  "The Message to the Planet". Book by Iris Murdoch, p. 532, 1989.

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

  Mary Oliver

  Follow Your Dreams, Curious, Clutter

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• Our personal consumer choices have ecological, social, and spiritual consequences. It is time to re-examine some of our deeply held notions that underlie our lifestyles.

  David Suzuki

  God, Spiritual, Time

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• Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Stars, Groups, Essentials

  "The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle, www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.

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• Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would contradict the long-held body of medical ethics to which all American doctors must adhere.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Christian, Doctors, Long

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• We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some point stopped and "history" took over is absurd, though it is widespread among various social scientists and humanists.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Narrative, Evolution, Scientist

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Stupid, Sleep, Men

  William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books

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• Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

  David Hume

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4068, Delphi Classics

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• I love The End of the Batman story. I have my original copy, the hardcover, at my house from when I was a kid, whenever that was,'88 or '89. It was very influential to me because it was so explicit in touching on the notion that Batman might be mad and that he might belong in the mad house.

  Scott Snyder

  Kids, Mad, House

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• I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.

  Enoch Powell

  Years, Russia, Challenges

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• There is a notion that complete impartiality is the most fitting and indeed the normal disposition for true exegesis , because it guarantees complete absence of prejudice. For a short time, around 1910, this idea threatened to achieve almost a canonical status in Protestant theology. But now, we can quite calmly describe it as merely comical.

  Karl Barth

  Ideas, Prejudice, Guarantees

  Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics: The doctrine of the word of God (2 pts.)”, p.469, A&C Black

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• There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Mean, Long, Community

  Richard M. Nixon's speech on the October Crisis (October 1970) as quoted in Louis Fournier "F.L.Q: The Anatomy of an Underground movement" (p. 256), 1984.

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• The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

  Edward Albee

  Women, Home, Mean

  Lee Krasner, John Cheim, Edward Albee, Lisa Liebmann, Stephen Westfall (1991). “Lee Krasner: paintings from 1965 to 1970”

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