Notion

Famous quotes containing the word notion:

“Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)

“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

“Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)