Conceive Quotes

460 Conceive quotes by 345 unique authors

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of… — Napoleon Hill
I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be... — Stan Getz
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame. — Emile M. Cioran
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities… — Archibald MacLeish
O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! — William Shakespeare
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. — William Wordsworth
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants — Plato
Holiness is not first a matter of doing anything. It is first and foremost a matter of letting it be done. Holiness is to conceive… — Christopher West
I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. — Gottfried Leibniz
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese? — Charles de Gaulle
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or… — Samuel Johnson
In order to form for one's self a just notion of the operations which result in the production of thought, it is necessary to conceive… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis
O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy… — E E Cummings
Individuals who break through by inventing a new paradigm are almost always either very young men or very new to the field whose paradigm they… — Thomas Kuhn
None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine… — Joseph Haydn
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist… — Zelda Popkin
I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding… — Edward Smith
I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are… — Anne Bronte
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. — Ferdinand de Saussure
Only stilted pedants can conceive the idea that there are absolute norms to tell what is beautiful and what is not. They try to derive… — Ludwig von Mises
An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must… — Henri Matisse
I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is… — Rajneesh
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United… — William Howard Russell
What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it! — Unknown Author

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