Conceives Quotes

#1. America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Will Rogers

#2. Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

Alfie Kohn

#3. The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility.

William Shakespeare

#4. The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

Frederick Lenz

#5. Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good ... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Pope Francis

#6. Nobody dreams of music in hell, and nobody conceives of heaven without it.

S. Parkes Cadman

#7. Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

Georges Braque

#8. The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

Aleister Crowley

#9. Nobody is strong and nobody is weak if he conceives of the body, from the head to the sole of the foot, as a unity in which a living mind circulates everywhere equally.

Miyamoto Musashi

#10. The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Gunter Grass

#11. For anyone who conceives literature in terms of plurality of perspectives, Finnegans Wake has to be the apogee. For, as we are told, every word in it has three score and ten "toptypsical" meanings - an exaggeration, of course, but an important reminder to readers who like their fiction definite.

Philip Kitcher

#12. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he is his deep heart conceives God to be like.

A.W. Tozer

#13. A reality completely independent of the spirit that conceives it, sees it, or feels it, is an impossibility. A world so external as that, even if it existed, would be forever inaccessible to us.

Henri Poincare

#14. Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

Vanna Bonta

#15. Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt

#16. Whenever God gives a miracle child to an old couple, it is a sign that He is beginning something new. An old couple having their first child means a new life. But a virgin who conceives must mark the beginning of a new creation.

Peter J. Leithart

#17. Only an aching heart
Conceives a changeless work of art.

William Butler Yeats

#18. A story is only an outlet for frustrated aspirations, for aspirations which the story-teller conceives in accordance with a limited stock of spiritual resources inherited from previous generations.

Sadegh Hedayat

#19. The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Edward Levi

#20. Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

Deepak Chopra

#21. Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold

#22. I am accused. I dream of massacres.
I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,
Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
world conceives
Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.

Sylvia Plath

#23. If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

Baruch Spinoza

#24. God accommodates [Moses'] complaints and makes in-course corrections. God does not take a human being so fully into the divine confidence--you might say, God does not depend on a human being so fully--until Mary conceives by the Holy Spirit. (pg. 16)

Ellen F. Davis

#25. Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.

George Washington

#26. True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Andre Gide

#27. The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Buddha

#28. Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn and shifty-eyed: solemn, because he feels he ought to declare an opinion; shifty-eyed, because he is wondering how to conceal the fact that he has no opinion to declare.

Peter Medawar

#29. The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.

David Haas

#30. The pain does not bring perfection because the pain is from Satan. The Great Divine Reality is happiness, peace, abundance and perfection. The Great Reality can't create the pain. What is perfect can't create pain. What is perfect only conceives happiness.

Samael Aun Weor

#31. Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.

Earl Browder

#32. What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Chanakya

#33. The moment one conceives the meaning of human greatness is the moment when one understands the baseness, the triviality and the meanness of the material from which we have to mould it.

Bill Hopkins

#34. The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

Emile Durkheim

#35. The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.

Neale Donald Walsch

#36. Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Mikhail Bakunin

#37. The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.

Daniel Bell

#38. For he that but conceives a crime in thought,
Contracts the danger of an actual fault.

Thomas Creech

#39. In her opinion her singing falls on deaf ears anyway; there is no lack of enthusiasm and applause, but she has long since given up hope of genuine understanding as she conceives it.

Franz Kafka

#40. Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other
problem will solve itself.

Ramana Maharshi

#41. The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert

#42. Mysticism conceives something transcending experience; religion seeks glimpses of a better good or a worse evil than experience can give. Reincarnation need only extend experiences in the sense of repeating them.

G.K. Chesterton

#43. The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

Lajos Kossuth

#44. It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.

George Henry Lewes

#45. Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

Benito Mussolini

#46. If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

Baruch Spinoza

#47. I saw within Its depth how It conceives
All things in a single volume bound by Love
of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

Dante Alighieri

#48. When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

Marianne Williamson

#49. At the best the body is only the organ and instrument of the soul, and that it must be kept under and made subservient to those lofty purposes which the soul conceives in its secret place and executes in life's arena.

F.B. Meyer

#50. A very receptive state of mind ... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

Minor White

#51. The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#52. The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#53. But since Freud still conceives the mind as a closed system, desires are not expelled but only hidden away.

Sigmund Freud

#54. Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subject - the center of meaning.

Minae Mizumura

#55. Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

Derek Raymond

#56. Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.

Shawn Achor

#57. Not only is man what he conceives himself to be, but he is also only what he wills himself to be after this thrust toward existence. Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such

Jean-Paul Sartre

#58. Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be ...

Jean-Paul Sartre

#59. By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrealistic even for human beings, and far too one-sided to be used as a central tool of morality.

Mary Midgley

#60. A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

George Herbert

#61. Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Herbert Hoover