Conception Quotes

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Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. — Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception… — George Santayana
With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth. — Charles Caleb Colton
Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Wit in conversation is only a readiness of thought and a facility of expression, or a quick conception and an easy delivery. — Alexander Pope
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of… — Wallace D. Wattles
We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity… — Swami Vivekananda
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor… — Martin Luther
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since… — Henri Poincare
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision… — Fritjof Capra
It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even… — Henri Poincare
The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their… — Wilfred Trotter
Through art we express our conception of what nature is not. — Pablo Picasso
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged and classified. Change… — Wallace D. Wattles
Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception. — Wallace D. Wattles
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender… — Thomas Huxley

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