Conception Quotes

My spiritual journey began at conception.

— Ser'Darius Blain

All conceptions in the game of chess have a geometrical basis.

— Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“For Republicans, life begins at conception but ends at birth.”

— J.Adam Snyder

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

— Peter Bichsel

To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

— Wallace Stevens

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

— Cyril of Jerusalem

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

— Dick Gephardt

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.

— John Ruskin

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

— Marie Stopes

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

— Wallace D. Wattles

How do I define God? I don't… People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as…

— Noam Chomsky

The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress…

— Laura Huxley

Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase…

— Dorothea Lange

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of…

— Paul Cezanne

It is said that our destiny is set, predetermined before conception. But I myself, have never been a believer...

— Anonymous

It is not a profession to be a pianist and musician. It is a philosophy, a conception of life that cannot be…

— Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind,…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye…

— Octavio Paz

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property,…

— John Rawls

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The immediate source of a mind... must be a mind which existed before the conception took place; the mind must have a…

— Dalai Lama

Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einsteins position by showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined…

— Fritjof Capra

Aside from that reservation, a fictive tale even has the advantage of manifesting symbolic necessity more purely to the extent that we…

— Jacques Lacan

“The ingenerating of a principle of grace in the soul seems in Scripture to be compared to the conceiving of Christ in…

— Jonathan Edwards

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The street is as diverse as any other sector, but in peoples' mind it gets appropriated as a black man who's tough.…

— Cornel West

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my…

— Tecumseh

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates…

— Stanley Milgram

Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is…

— Thomas Aquinas

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human…

— Benjamin Franklin

The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them,…

— Emma Goldman

“My father was a man of iron will. He had a red beard and eyes like caves. He married my mother sensibly…

— Robert Nye

“The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him…

— Tom Conrad

“When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk enough in the poet's company…

— John Crowley

As sure as it's the cause of birth, conception is the cause of death.

— Steve Fowler

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

— Jeane Dixon

“When coming to making kids: Size doesn’t count, it’s sperm count that counts.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Every conception has a touch of the miraculous - this one far more than most.”

— Liz Curtis Higgs

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

— Thomas Hobbes