Concepts Quotes

541 Concepts quotes by 418 unique authors

It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers.… — A J Liebling
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain… — Marilyn Manson
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented… — Danica McKellar
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. — Marshall McLuhan
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather… — Michel Onfray
I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which… — Terry Pratchett
We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our… — Abdolkarim Soroush
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about… — Steven Spielberg
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. — John Steinbeck
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have… — Patrick Stewart
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage… — Patrick Stewart
Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and… — John Sununu
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of… — Thomas Szasz
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I… — Clyde Tombaugh
We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. — Wilhelm Wundt
Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable… — Albert Einstein
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process;… — Gary Hamel
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs,… — Chuck Palahniuk
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. — Mahatma Gandhi
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement… — Kim Stanley Robinson
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize… — C.S. Lewis
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good… — Terri Windling
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are… — Garth Stein
The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself. — Nhat Hanh

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