Conceive Quotes
460 Conceive quotes by 345 unique authors
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When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore…
— Lewis Carroll
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Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible…
— Max Ehrmann
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his…
— Albert Einstein
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I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting…
— James Madison
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The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our…
— Joseph Story
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Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and…
— George Washington
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To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be…
— Ernest Renan
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He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.
— Thomas Jefferson
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful…
— Eric Hoffer
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The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they have a daughter.…
— Sandra Dallas
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Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
— Stephen Batchelor
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I simply couldn’t conceive of how devastating it would be not to be able to hear my children’s voices. Not to be able to communicate…
— Kate Winslet
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly.…
— Patrick Warburton
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Moses is the keystone to every man's ethical code. He was the first man of record in history to conceive of the law as separate…
— Charlton Heston
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At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different
— Roberto Unger
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
— Oscar Wilde
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer…
— Edward Hoagland
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If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
— Edward Abbey
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I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance…
— Benjamin Franklin
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I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult…
— Thomas Paine
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I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I…
— James Madison
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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly…
— Henry Fielding
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No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
— Napoleon Hill
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