Conception Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

— Wallace Stevens

A conceived thing is doubly a product of mind, more a product of mind, if you will, than an idea, since ideas arise,so to…

— George Santayana

I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true:…

— Rene Descartes

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Generally speaking, only simple conceptions can grip the mind of a nation. An idea that is clear and precise even though false will always…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your…

— Deepak Chopra

I'm interested in how we define things by how we choose to observe them, and how everywhere in our lives, and in every moment…

— Oliver Jeffers

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or…

— Nikola Tesla

It's hard to explain where ideas come from. They're an amalgamation of a million thoughts, dreams and sparks of imagination and it's difficult to…

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation…

— George Berkeley

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects…

— John Locke

The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in…

— Kazimir Malevich