Concepts Quotes

541 Concepts quotes by 418 unique authors

I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the… — Muhammad Yunus
We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all. — William Peter Blatty
For the photograph's immobility is somehow the result of a perverse confusion between two concepts: the Real and the Live: by attesting that the object… — Roland Barthes
People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be… — Masashi Kishimoto
If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock,… — Conan O'Brien
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is… — Bede Griffiths
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is… — George F. Kennan
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.... Through words and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You do not go out into the street in your underwear, although usually you are wearing underwear. The underwear is not visible but it is… — Edward de Bono
Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of… — Aberjhani
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one… — Haruki Murakami
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,… — Robert Musil
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,… — Thomas Pynchon
I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I… — Anne Lamott
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top… — Charles Bukowski
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man… — Thomas Merton
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is… — Donald Knuth
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings. — Miguel de Cervantes
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of… — Aung San Suu Kyi
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make… — Benjamin Carson
But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous. — Koren Zailckas
And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which… — Donald Miller
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has… — Vine Deloria, Jr.

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