69 Metaphors for notions

A man's loftiest and most ideal notions must be of a singularly ethereal and, shall we not say, senseless kind, if he can never see how to take a single step that may tend in the slightest degree towards making them more real.

But the wrong notions the Allies still entertain about Caliphate are a sufficient indication of the effects of the work of this official delegation.

The notion that men in public life must receive and mingle with great masses of people, or run the risk of being called undemocratic, is a relic of the political dark ages.

This notion is a misleading survival, for tools are of value only in terms of the character using them.

His notion of subjoining a noun to every pronoun, is a fit counterpart to that of some other grammarians, who imagine an ellipsis of a pronoun after almost every noun.

The notion of Chance, he says, is the same with that of Free-Will; the doctrine of Necessary Connection with the dogma of Predestination.

The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions.

The physics of Newton are no longer final, and the notion of 'energy' is a dangerous rival to the older conception of 'matter.'

[Footnote 6: A letter of the Prince Consort examines the principle of ministerial responsibility with so remarkable a clearness of perception and distinctness of explanation, that we may be excused for quoting it at length: "The notion that the responsibility of his advisers impairs the monarch's dignity and importance is a complete mistake.

My notions are not all bad ones.

The priest's notion of describing a small transgression as monstrous, in order that a great crimewhich he will not mention for humanity's sakemay be atoned for by it, is sublime of its kind and a worthy representative of this whole mode of thinking.

But the mistaken notion which most strips the country of its natural guardians, is the fallacy, on the part of young and sanguine dispositions, of believing that the motives and sphere of individual action rise in proportion to the apparent magnitude of the scene.

"The reason why the middle sort of people retain so much of their ancient virtue &c. is because no such pernicious notions are the ingredients of their education; which 'tis a sign are infinitely absurd, when so many of the gentry and nobility can, notwithstanding their prepossession, get clear of them."

Now these notions are twofold, actions or habits: actions, by which we take notions of, and perceive things; habits, which are durable lights and notions, which we may use when we will.

I believe that the very imperfect notion ordinarily formed of its meaning, is the chief obstacle which impedes its reception; and that could it be cleared, even from only the grosser misconceptions, the question would be greatly simplified, and a large proportion of its difficulties removed.

Our notions of the possible cease to be a criterion of truth or falsehood, and our contempt for the Gospels as myths must slowly die, as 'miracle' after 'miracle' is brought within the realm of acknowledged law.

The whole notion is a product of these modern days' He would have said more, but he luckily remembered at whose table he was sitting.

LAW, Coke's definition of it, iii. 16, n. 1; honesty compatible with the practice of it, ii. 47, 48, n. 1; v. 26, 72; laws last longer than their causes, ii. 416; manners, made and repealed by, ii. 419; particular cases, not made for, iii. 25; primary notion is restraint, ii. 416; reports, English and Scotch, ii. 220; writers on it need not have practised it, ii. 430.

Now a dastardly notion is gittin' about Thet our bladder is bust an' the gas oozin' out, An' onless we can mennage in some way to stop it, Why, the thing's a gone coon, an' we might ez wal drop it.

This notion that all interference with so-called "free competition," is a violation (though very likely fully justified) of economic laws has sunk deep into our common thought.

'This Notion of a future Eternity, which is natural to the Mind of Man, is an unanswerable Argument that he is a Being designed for it; especially if we consider that he is capable of being Virtuous or Vicious here; that he hath Faculties improvable to all Eternity, and by a proper or wrong Employment of them, may be happy or miserable throughout that infinite Duration.

These notions of your aunt were mere delusions.

The notion of the escape of the soul through an opening is probably only in part the origin of this superstition.

Fortunately, as it seems to me, his general contention, that the very notion of relation is [Footnote 1: Here again the reader must beware of slipping from logical into phenomenal considerations.

Aristotle, indeed, affirms the mind to be at first a mere tabula rasa, and that these notions are not ingenit, and imprinted by the finger of nature, but by the later and more languid impressions of sense, being only the reports of observation, and the result of so many repeated experiments. (1.)

69 Metaphors for  notions