Construct Quotes

294 quotes by 269 authors

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by… — Angela Davis
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside… — Edward Abbey
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others. — Philip K. Dick
We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing. — Paul Klee
If you make a product good enough... the public will make a path to your door, says the philosopher. But if you want the public… — William Randolph Hearst
If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become… — Malala Yousafzai
The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men,… — Andrea Dworkin
What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my… — James Lovelock
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice,… — John Welwood
We can construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our sexuality any way we want: it is our privilege as thinking creatures. However, human sexuality has a specific… — Jennifer Morse
... our purpose in founding our state was not to promote the happiness of a single class, but, so far as possible, of the whole… — Plato
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical ideas of successive… — Alfred North Whitehead
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and… — Jonathan Haidt
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear… — H.G. Wells
It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. — David Foster Wallace
Microsoft Mobile Oy is a legal construct that was created to facilitate the merger. It is not a brand that will be seen by consumers.… — Stephen Elop
For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you… — Umberto Eco
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute… — Alfred P. Sloan
The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things. — Albert Einstein
The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run its… — Gerda Lerner

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