Humility means one does not impose his conceptions upon others and he is fully dependent on the mercy of the Lord. — Bhaktisvarupa Damodar Swami Copy Share Image
Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat,… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
An abiding and central concern of philosophy and religion alike is the fear that the world is alien to human beings, that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The United States-Israeli relationship is based on the broadest conception of American national interest in which our two nations are bound forever… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Things and persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. How unconsciously we judge… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
I think our conception of literature should accommodate not only apolitical writers but also those whose political opinions we find unpalatable. Fiction… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
