Conceptions Quotes

117 quotes by 102 authors

The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this power arises from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings. — Jules Verne
Thus, gender ideology no only creates ides about femininity but it also shapes conceptions of masculinity. — Patricia Hill Collins
To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the… — Bertrand Russell
Maniacal suicide. â€”This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey… — Emile Durkheim
This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a… — Virchand Gandhi
At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is… — Nirmala Srivastava
The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics. — Bertrand Russell
For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service… — Rachel Cusk
The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our… — Nikola Tesla
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains… — Paul Bloom
I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own… — Tecumseh
CUPID, n. The so-called god of love. This bastard creation of a barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of its… — Ambrose Bierce
Scientific exploration is basically establishing an order of judgments which are necessary for conclusion. Its the process of observation; comparing; inferring; experimenting and testing. This… — Johnny Luckett
The danger of parachuting young enthusiastic scientists into a flower bed of selected data and fully bloomed conceptions should be underestimated. — A Lwoff
For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it are… — Robert Hooke
All the loveliness imparted to the creature is lent it to give us enlarged conceptions of that vast confluence and immensity that exuberates in God. — Robert Boyle

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