Conceive Quotes
460 quotes by 353 authors
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
— Charles Baudelaire
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If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced…
— Annie Besant
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people,…
— Geraldine Brooks
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No animal on the face of the earth could conceive of taxation. You and I work roughly six months a year to pay our local,…
— Rita Mae Brown
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it…
— Wernher von Braun
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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices, to part with…
— Lewis Mumford
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence…
— Martin Rees
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Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would…
— Milton Friedman
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.
— Michel de Montaigne
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You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the…
— Napoleon Hill
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
— Michael Douglas
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Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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