Concepts Quotes

541 Concepts quotes by 418 unique authors

When you are present, your mind is silent. Free of opinions, concepts and beliefs and free of projections from the past and anxiety about the… — Leonard Jacobson
Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them… — Albert Einstein
A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the real a method… — Henri Bergson
If weâ€™re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships… — T. Harv Eker
Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition. — E. O. Wilson
The brain cannot multitask. Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a timeâ€¦To… — John Medina
Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts. — James Bryant Conant
I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. — Bianca Jagger
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. — Neil Abercrombie
Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. — Eckhart Tolle
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos… — William Cecil Dampier
If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small… — Dee Hock
The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the… — Jiang Zemin
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. — Clyde Tombaugh
We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who… — Moses Mendelssohn
Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. — Edward de Bono
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence… — Dan Simmons
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel

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