Conception Quotes · Page 9

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means…

— Clifford Geertz

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being…

— Oswald Chambers

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever…

— David Hume

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

— Michel de Montaigne

More than two decades after the birth of Louise Brown, and all the hysteria that surrounded her 'test tube' conception, we should…

— Virginia Postrel

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we…

— George Santayana

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

— George Gissing

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked…

— Dennis Quaid

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

— Michelangelo

Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all…

— Giorgio Vasari

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

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

— Jeane Dixon

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all…

— Leo Tolstoy

I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to…

— Tom Coburn

Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the…

— Edward Kennedy

Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As…

— Aristotle

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore…

— Alan Watts

The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into…

— Havelock Ellis

I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its…

— John of the Cross

We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Contrary to popular belief, I don't go out very much. When I do go out, a lot of times it'll be to…

— Rob Lowe

When people say, "God is love," I think they mean that love is extremely important, or that God really wants us to…

— Timothy Keller