Impression

Famous quotes containing the word impression:

“Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!
Men may dien of imaginacioun,
So deepe may impression be take.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)

“My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)