#notions

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes. ↗

— John Locke

#darkness #eyes #into #looked #men

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#because #change #conservative #crimes #culture

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#notions #ordinary #ordinary people #out #people

People watch movies - and it's vague ideas, it's vague notions, but people pick up on these things, that they are supposed to think certain ways or that they're not supposed to think, basically, and they don't. ↗

— Crispin Glover

#certain #certain ways #ideas #movies #notions

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ↗

— Merry Browne

#locks #notions #preconceived #wisdom

There's a lot of romanticisation of the intuitive actor and method acting and all kinds of notions about getting inside a character and coming out from there. ↗

— Edward Norton

#acting #actor #character #coming #getting

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#constrained #discourse #during #government #how