Quotes with notions

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  • Charles F. Kettering It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
    About the proof of Wilsons theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu General notions are generally wrong.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Joseph Conrad Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Brigitte Bardot 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
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Seneca If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Woody Guthrie Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
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  • Francis Bacon Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Adam Clarke 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
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Aphra Behn Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • George Eliot Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Andrew Cohen Our true nature is free of any and all notions of gender, of any notions of difference whatsoever.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Seneca Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Algernon Sydney The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Jean Paul 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
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Marcus Aurelius 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
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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