(210 quotes found)
“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
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.”
Christopher Guest
“But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. . . . The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.”
William H. Rehnquist
“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.”
William Law
“It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
Charles F. Kettering
“The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.”
Byron R. White
“I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept”
Carl Becker
“The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.”
Gene Simmons
