Concept Quotes

1465 Concept quotes by 1137 unique authors

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed. — Antoine Lavoisier
There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults. — Nina Bawden
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to… — Jorge Luis Borges
The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used… — Robert Foster Bennett
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky scheming off the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Johnny Rivers...returned to L.A. to accept a lucrative offer from Elmer Valentine to open at his lavish new nightclub based upon the popular European discotheque… — Unknown Author
New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain… — Freeman Dyson
Jobs are a centuries-old concept created during the Industrial Revolution. Despite the reality that we're now deep in the Information Age, many people are studying… — Robert Kiyosaki
...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil.… — Bruce Lee
Dogs would make totally incompetent criminals. If you could somehow get a group of dogs to understand the concept of the Kennedy assassination, they would… — Dave Barry
But the lack of faith could just as well be a crutch for non-believers, allowing them to live their lives without any concept of accountability… — Michael Coren
The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me. — Bryan Adams
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. — George Papandreou
It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to… — Douglas MacArthur
Every theory presented as a scientific concept is just that; it's a theory that tries to explain more about the world than previous theories have… — Marvin Harris
Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people… — Haruki Murakami
Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. — James Balog
The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig. — Albert Einstein
The concept of 'talent' is formed under completely abstract criteria, having nothing in common with reality. But the reality is such that I don't understand… — Alexander Morozevich
The concepts "soul", "spirit" and last of all the concept "immortal soul" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity… — Parker J. Palmer
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. — Omar Bongo
The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ.... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's… — Robert H. Schuller
To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as… — Ernst Mach

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