Cannot Conceive Quotes
56 quotes by 47 authors
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I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.
— Michael Faraday
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I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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You cannot conceive the many without the one.
— Plato
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I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and…
— George Washington
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Any story dealing, however seriously, with homosexual love is taken to be a story about homosexuality while stories dealing with heterosexual love are seen as…
— Vito Russo
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The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing.…
— Jacob Bronowski
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon…
— Edmund Burke
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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
— Bela Bartok
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The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of…
— Francis Bacon
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
— Lucretius
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The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to…
— Luther Burbank
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The public, therefore, among a democratic people, has a singular power, which aristocratic nations cannot conceive; for it does not persuade others to its beliefs,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
— Nelson Mandela
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I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
— Blaise Pascal
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We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to…
— William Shakespeare
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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
— Graham Greene
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I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself
— Antonin Artaud
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I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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