Notion

Famous quotes containing the word notion:

“The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)

“Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)