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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. -- Cormac McCarthy
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment. -- Jacque Fresco
Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined. -- Douglas Crimp
We are people, individuals comprising a variety of sexes, races, shifting sexualities and all the rest of it. Every convention that tries to reinforce this difference is a step back. Notions of gender pointlessly separate men from women, but also mothers from daughters and fathers from sons. -- Robert Webb
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -- Mary Browne
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. -- Sandra Bullock
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. -- Aphra Behn
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. -- Marquis de Sade
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. -- John Locke
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
The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. -- Jean Paul
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing. -- Nick Cave
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. -- Ron Paul
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years. -- Taslima Nasrin
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. -- Aldous Huxley
Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing. -- Nhat Hanh
You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I think a lot of people are projecting their own troubles and fears concerning sexuality onto those around them, and it does result in the perpetuation of a lot of hateful notions. As long as I can remember, I've felt really horrified watching those dynamics play out. -- Ezra Miller
I don't think it's a Western thing to really talk about intrinsic motivation and the drive for autonomy, mastery and purpose. You have to not be struggling for survival. For people who don't know where their next meal is coming, notions of finding inner motivation are comical. -- Daniel H. Pink
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time. -- Ali Smith
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers. -- John Henrik Clarke
And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with those curious Notions wherewith you tickle and spur on slow-paced Time; I believe, that the Moon is a World like ours, to which this of ours serves likewise for a Moon.' -- Cyrano de Bergerac
The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance. -- Nhat Hanh
I'm always interested in how people, myself included, have ideas of themselves, of how they thought they would be, or of how they want to be seen. And the older you get, the world keeps telling you different things about yourself. And how people either adjust to those things and let go of adolescent notions. Or they dig in deeper. -- Noah Baumbach
We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in. -- Mitch Daniels
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' -- Sandra Bullock
General notions are generally wrong. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions. -- Eric Maisel
While we're in the dream, these are useful notions. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements. -- Pearl Bailey
Thou shalt not offend against the notions of thy neighbor. -- James Branch Cabell
Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process. -- Scott Kahn
I've learned that you shouldn't have preconceived notions about anybody. -- Alton Brown
It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way. -- Horace
You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about. -- Albert Camus
Choices are exhibited through the notions of free will,temptation challenges them. -- Crimson "C.L. Williams"
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself. -- Gene Simmons
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. -- Upton Sinclair
Be open to surrendering all preconceived notions, well-thought-out plans and annual to-do lists. -- Pooja Ruprell
Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. -- Lord Byron
Truth revealed from heaven is worth more than all the notions of men. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . . -- Arthur Conan Doyle
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. -- Ben Stein
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. -- Thomas Merton
I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful. -- Mark Strand
The likeness we bear to Jesus is more essential than our notions of him. -- Lucretia Mott
Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God. -- David Attenborough
My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads. -- Charles Baxter
When we let go of all our notions about things, everything becomes really true. -- Kosho Uchiyama
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. -- Thomas Merton
True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift. -- Gautama Buddha
Mutual commitment to ideals - yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions - no. -- Norman Lamm
3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. -- Hod Lipson
There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. -- Rumi
Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. -- J. B. Priestley
I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind... -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me. -- Margaret Halsey
Mr. Doctor, that loose gown becomes you so well I wonder your notions should be so narrow. -- Elizabeth I
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists. -- Gilles Deleuze
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Adolescence has such a negative connotation and it shouldn't. It's experimentation, it's being unsure, no preconceived notions. -- Mary Tyler Moore
Not that I'm against sneaking some notions into people's heads upon occasion. (Or blasting them in outright. -- Larry Wall
To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'. -- Suzy Kassem
In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight. -- George Eliot
The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions. -- Dan Barker
Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever. -- Andrew Cohen
I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for. -- Lucy Grealy
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions. -- Robert Genn
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions. -- Gina Carano
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons. -- Abigail Adams
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. -- Charlotte Mason
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs. -- Thomas Sowell
To be or not to be is not the question. The question is whether you can transcend these notions. -- Nhat Hanh
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones. -- Wes Nisker
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. -- Stendhal
Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines. -- Kay WalkingStick
The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues. -- Mark McKinnon
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. -- Nathan Seiberg
It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity. -- Stella Young
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has. -- Lou Reed
Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. -- John Medina
There is nothing left worth preserving in the notions of unseen powers, controlling human destiny, to which obedience and worship are due. -- John Dewey
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. -- Francis Bacon
... the notions category and functor were not formulated or put in print until the idea of a natural transformation was also at hand. -- Saunders Mac Lane
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity. -- bell hooks
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of "?power' over other species. -- Ian Somerhalder
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. -- Theodor Herzl
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. -- Brigitte Bardot
The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafÃ©. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night. -- Max Brooks
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy. -- Tom Peters
If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences. -- Deepak Chopra
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. -- Adam Clarke
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him. -- Brother Lawrence
The man who will neither play nor do business unless everything is just to his liking and notions, retards rather than contributes to progress. -- Henry Latham Doherty
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. -- James Russell Lowell
Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. -- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury
Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education. -- Robert Draper
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The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence. -- Sam Harris
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. -- Meister Eckhart
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others. -- Samuel Richardson
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation. -- Nhat Hanh
Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches. -- John Gerzema
I think people have certain preconceived notions of certain people that they've never met. And so, that's sort of what I try to work from. -- Justin Hartley
I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance. -- Michel de Montaigne
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our preconceived notions and formulas. -- Azar Nafisi
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Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into inalterable systems. -- Thomas M. Disch
Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self. -- Guru Nanak
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author. -- Martin Amis
He now realized that right and wrong were intertwined notions. His arms could not differentiate between just and unjust causes. They only knew that they were empty. -- Roy L. Pickering Jr.

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