Notion
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
Author: J. B. PriestleyTopics: Famous, Holiday, Notion, People, Time, Travel
It’s too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world
Author: Thom MayneTopics: Autonomy, Famous, Notion, Political, Public, Simplistic, Simultaneously, Turning
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Ambition, Dream, Fashionable, Notion, Poverty, Social, Time
The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Cherished, Famous, Gained, Groove, Language, Notion, Pedants
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions.
Author: Theodor HerzlTopics: Circle Small, Circles, Incapable, Noticed, Notion, Real Trick, Real value, Real-Life, Realise, Routine, Royal, Rule, Rules to live by
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that ‘I am so and so’. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Destroy, Famous, Notion, Required, Shape, Stillness, Summed, Trouble, Truth, Words, Yourself
The notion that we are products of our environment is our greatest sin; we are products of our choices.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Choices, Environment, Famous, Greatest, Inspirational, Meaningful, Notion, Products