Notion Quotes

If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.

Home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.

You obtain God only when you get rid of the notion of separateness from God.

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow.

If you feel like loving me, if you've got the notion, I second that emotion.

Americans have only the dimmest notion of what their constitutional freedoms are - and what it took to get them...[and] the willingness to surrender what we're supposed to be fighting for is a recurring part of our history.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

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

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.

When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions

We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

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

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

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

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

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

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

The Ultimate and Highest leave taking is leaving God for GOD, leaving your notion of God for an Experience of That which transcends all notions.

The motive of art comes to us not from what exists, but from the notion that there is something higher, something nobler, something richer, and that what exists corresponds only partially to all of this.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.

Believing is seeing. It's much more effective than the old notion that seeing is believing.

I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

To behave "humanely" it is perfectly possible to do without the notion of "humanity."

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

I am changing the notion that actresses can’t have happy marriages

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch.

I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a poem comes from absolutely everything that every happened to you.

'Reality' is a notion that journalists take for granted.

If you subscribe to the notion of God as being separate from you, than you will always be lost, because you can't even trust in your own untrustworthiness.

I am against the notion of style in itself

Here's a notion: Peace in the Middle East would come about more easily if the region were governed by women.

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.