Conceiving Quotes

42 quotes by 38 authors

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. — Simone de Beauvoir
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,… — Charles Darwin
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their… — Theodore Dreiser
Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and… — Pope John Paul II
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of… — Karl Popper
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… — Thomas Huxley
...great difficulties are felt at first and these cannot be overcome except by starting from experiments .. and then be conceiving certain hypotheses ... But… — Christiaan Huygens
Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make. — Chase Jarvis
Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it… — Billy Graham
Can theology give to the mind the ineffable boon of conceiving that which no man is in a capacity to comprehend? Can it procure to… — Baron d'Holbach
My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I… — Thomas A. Edison
Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most… — Horace Bushnell
It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral… — Saint Augustine
I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason,… — Gottfried Leibniz
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of… — Arthur Peacocke
I want to get an abortion. But my boyfriend and I are having trouble conceiving. — Sarah
If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among… — James Hutton
The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,… — Simone Weil
When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them… — Austin Farrer

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