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)

“I’m ashamed of myself and this magazine too. The sloppy, slovenly notion that everybody’s busy doing bigger things. Well, there just isn’t anything bigger than beating down the complacence of essentially decent people about prejudice. Yes, I’m ashamed of myself.”
—Moss Hart (1904–1961)

“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)