“By day certainly the combatants have a clearer notion, though even then by no means of all that takes place, no one knowing much of anything that does not does not go on in his own immediate neighborhood; but in a night engagement ( and this was the only one that occurred between great armies during the war) how could anyone know anything for certain?” KnowsMeanDoeWarNightCertainKnowingGoes OnArmyNotionNeighborhoodEngagementGreat Army Book:The Landmark Thucydides Source: The Landmark Thucydides
“Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.” MenWayCountryScienceLyingBornDifferencesKnowingDivineKingsExerciseEnglandNotionEducatedMathematicianOur ThoughtsFacilityVirginiaEnquiry Author:John Locke
“The notion that "this too shall pass" is comforting, both in knowing that whatever pain I'm in will change into something else and allowing myself to experience the pain, not trying to blunt it or brush it aside. It's important to feel and to be connected to your emotions, whichever way they play out.” WayFeelsTryingImportantPlayPainEmotionKnowingNotionConnectedAllowingBrushesComfortingBluntThis Too Shall Pass Author:Patrick Fabian