Conceive Quotes

460 Conceive quotes by 345 unique authors

The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability… — Ludwig von Mises
The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions. — Ludwig von Mises
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of textualism, which is… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself… — Emile M. Cioran
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… — Isaac D'Israeli
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever… — Isaac D'Israeli
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a… — Ayn Rand
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of… — Sivananda
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what… — Samuel Johnson
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. — John Selden
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
It is impossible, except for theologians, to conceive of a world-wide scandal or a universe-wide scandal; the proof of this is the way people have… — Mary McCarthy
Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and… — Gunnar Myrdal
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing… — Mark Leyner
Your state of mind dominates your awareness to such an extent that you can't conceive of any other state of mind other than the state… — Frederick Lenz
I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day. — Vance Havner
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. — Bela Bartok
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could… — Martin Rees
It is not easy to conceive of anything that would be more unfortunate in a community based upon the ideals of which Americans boast than… — Calvin Coolidge
Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that… — Elizabeth von Arnim
As my mind can conceive of more good, the barriers and blocks dissolve. My life becomes full of little miracles popping up out of the… — Louise Hay
I always conceive a piece as a different set of challenges. — John Corigliano
If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear… — Wilhelm Dilthey
If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very… — Jonathan Franzen

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