Concepts Quotes
541 quotes by 418 authors
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I am leaving in order to have peace and quiet. To be rid of the influence of civilization. I only want to do simple, very…
— Paul Gauguin
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We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its continued viability. It…
— Unknown Author
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However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts.
— Leslie Lamport
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We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder
— Pope Gregory I
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap…
— Stanislav Grof
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Socialism is not about big concepts and heavy theory. Socialism is about decent shelter for those who are homeless. It is about water for those…
— Chris Hani
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For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in…
— Scott Bedbury
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A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a…
— Ivan Sutherland
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves
— Johann Georg Hamann
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It will remain remarkable, in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the scientific conclusion…
— Alain Aspect
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When one analyzes the pre-conscious step to concepts, one always finds ideas which consist of 'symbolic images.' The first step to thinking is a painted…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Ultimately, all thoughts are sponsored by love or fear. All thoughts, ideas, concepts, understandings, decisions, choices, and actions are based on these. And, in the…
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person…
— Denis Waitley
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For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set…
— Frantz Fanon
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All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.
— Carl Schmitt
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle…
— Rudolf Rocker
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The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
— H. L. Mencken
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