I Conceive Quotes

32 quotes by 26 authors

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne
When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to… — W. S. Gilbert
It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious… — Samuel Johnson
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to… — Benjamin Franklin
I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology. — Thomas Nagel
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly… — Mark Twain
A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants — Plato
I conceive of a world without poverty, without classes, without nations, without religions, without any kind of discrimination. I conceive of a world which is… — Rajneesh
Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United… — William Howard Russell
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds… — Alfred Russel Wallace
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct… — Julie Taymor
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. — Caleb Cushing
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific… — Hans Richter
I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic. — Clive Bell
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised… — George Washington
When the most abstract and "useless" disciplines have been cultivated for a time, they are often seized upon as practical tools by other departments of… — James R Newman
I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love… — Robert Muller
The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs. — Paco Rabanne
I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein… — Anne Hutchinson
I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others. — James A. Baldwin

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