Conceptions Quotes

117 quotes by 102 authors

We don't have to remain in this radically destructive mind-set and institutional-set. We can change, and the natural order of things could emerge in all… — Dee Hock
Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science. — Mary Somerville
In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is… — Herbert Read
One may say that evil does not exist for subjective man at all, that there exist only different conceptions of good. Nobody ever does anything… — G I Gurdjieff
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future. — Tom Stoppard
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are… — Wallace Stevens
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for… — Henry de Montherlant
Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they… — Mary Wesley
Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always have… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to… — Louis de Broglie
Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind. — Albert Einstein
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords… — Thomas Sowell
Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees… — Kazimir Malevich
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent… — Giorgio Vasari
The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation,… — Alexander Crummell
Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended… — Daniel Starch
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and… — Robert Genn
Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room… — William Osler
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where… — Albert Einstein
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free… — Louis D. Brandeis

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