Concepts Quotes
541 quotes by 437 authors
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Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.
— Kevin J. Anderson
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The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.
— Bede Griffiths
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Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost…
— Sherman Glenn Finesilver
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No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in…
— Mia Hamm
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Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts…
— James Bryant Conant
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We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages…
— Jacob Bronowski
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One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new…
— Freeman Dyson
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I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a…
— Robert Orben
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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link…
— Albert Einstein
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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his…
— Muhammad Asad
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You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was…
— Byron Katie
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What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity…
— Albert Einstein
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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,…
— Max Born
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In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is…
— Niels Bohr
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
— Albert Einstein
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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the…
— Immanuel Kant
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can…
— Immanuel Kant
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