No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some…

When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of…

— Austin Farrer

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or…

— Gottfried Leibniz

Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more…

— Charles Darwin

I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.

— Anonymous

The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy world ofits…

— Walter Pater

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what…

— Billy Graham

Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and…

— Uell Stanley Andersen

Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.

— John Dewey

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back…

— Laura Riding

“Holy Mother we do believe, That without sin Thou didst conceive; May we now in Thee believing, Also sin without conceiving.”

— A. P. Herbert

I apprehend things, before you can even fathom of conceiving that I allegedly KNOW

— Austin Drabik

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

— William James

You can practice to learn a technique, but I'm more interested in conceiving of something in the moment.

— Herbie Hancock

Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be…

— Arthur Peacocke

You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

— Ivan van Sertima