Quotes about Concepts

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Votes: 4

Concepts antedate facts. Votes: 3

Concepts are mental images. Votes: 3

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows. Votes: 3

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything. Votes: 3

Concepts become forces when they resist one another Votes: 3

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. Votes: 3

Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything. Votes: 3

Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power. Votes: 3

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. Votes: 3

Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees. Votes: 3

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. Votes: 3

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack. Votes: 3

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly. Votes: 3

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Votes: 3

Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity. Votes: 3

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true. Votes: 3

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. Votes: 3

Concepts of justice must have hands and feet...to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America. Votes: 3

Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment. Votes: 3

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. Votes: 2

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts. Votes: 2

None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. Votes: 2

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. Votes: 2

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean. Votes: 2

I believe that an art exhibition can be engaging, fun and deeply intellectually satisfying and serious. These are not contradictory concepts in art. Votes: 2

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time. Votes: 2

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Votes: 2

Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka moment in which we perceive the interconnection between disparate concepts or ideas to reveal something new. Votes: 2

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. Votes: 2

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist. Votes: 2

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. Votes: 2

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere. Votes: 2

Reading a book about management isn't going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts. Votes: 2

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting. Votes: 2

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. Votes: 2

Things like the financial markets - a proper grounding in mathematics could help the common man. I believe that if people are more familiar with mathematical concepts... it can help deal with modern life, which is increasingly complex. Votes: 2

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities. Votes: 2

In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years. Votes: 2

I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. Votes: 2

Everything, however complicated - breaking waves, migrating birds, and tropical forests - is made of atoms and obeys the equations of quantum physics. But even if those equations could be solved, they wouldn't offer the enlightenment that scientists seek. Each science has its own autonomous concepts and laws. Votes: 2

There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an introvert. In fact, the introverts were probably the first to feel crowded in England and to daydream about all the space they would find in the New World. Peace! Quiet! Votes: 2

I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about? Votes: 2

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Votes: 2

Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Votes: 0

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience. Votes: 0

Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts. Votes: 0

... challege the underlying concepts of corporate personhood ... Votes: 0

Christianity did take a lot of Greek concepts. Votes: 0

I think more about sounds rather than concepts. Votes: 0

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts. Votes: 0

entirely new concepts are very rare in politics ... Votes: 0

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions. Votes: 0

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite. Votes: 0

I love colors... as much as I love concepts. Votes: 0

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. Votes: 0

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts. Votes: 0

Religious concepts and vocabulary are certainly censored in these textbooks. Votes: 0

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. Votes: 0

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future. Votes: 0

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage. Votes: 0

Good sound habits are more important than rules - use concepts. Votes: 0

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts. Votes: 0

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations. Votes: 0

I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts. Votes: 0

Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another. Votes: 0

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works. Votes: 0

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts. Votes: 0

The primordial purity of the ground completely transcends words, concepts, and formulations. Votes: 0

There are no egoistic or unegoistic actions: both concepts are psychological absurdities. Votes: 0

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder Votes: 0

All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts. Votes: 0

The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals. Votes: 0

We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder Votes: 0

For some, reassessing concepts about truth and reality can be a scary proposition. Votes: 0

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience. Votes: 0

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. Votes: 0

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time. Votes: 0

Good and evil are polar concepts - one can't exist without the other. Votes: 0

I believe in two concepts: Everything in moderation and break a sweat every day. Votes: 0

I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture. Votes: 0

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self. Votes: 0

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. Votes: 0

I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts. Votes: 0

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts. Votes: 0

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply. Votes: 0

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves Votes: 0

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts. Votes: 0

We've been socialized with these concepts of love, intimacy, that have no bearing on reality. Votes: 0

Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts. Votes: 0

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. Votes: 0

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.] Votes: 0

...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out. Votes: 0

To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare Votes: 0

[The crowd] will finally succeed in remembering only the simplest concepts repeated a thousand times. Votes: 0

I don't think in national categories. For me it [policy] is about concepts and substance. Votes: 0

An economy open to new concepts and novel ventures is bound to generate unequal gains. Votes: 0

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter. Votes: 0

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. Votes: 0

With Christianity, freedom and equality became the two basic concepts of Europe; they are themselves Europe. Votes: 0

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose. Votes: 0

You explore concepts and things that interest you, but you are also exploring inside of yourself. Votes: 0

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts. Votes: 0

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts. Votes: 0

The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people. Votes: 0

[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. Votes: 0

The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts. Votes: 0

I knew what infinity was. Being a previous art student, I knew about some art concepts. Votes: 0

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them. Votes: 0

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it. Votes: 0

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism. Votes: 0

When I write Superboy and other DC characters, it's about boiling them down to core concepts. Votes: 0

When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. Votes: 0

When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness. Votes: 0

One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty. Votes: 0

Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners. Votes: 0

Writing is not possible without images. Yet, images don't have to be descriptive; they can be concepts. Votes: 0

There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa. Votes: 0

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. Votes: 0

Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law. Votes: 0

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me. Votes: 0

Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear.. Votes: 0

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. Votes: 0

Science advances, not by the accumulation of new facts, but by the continuos development of new concepts. Votes: 0

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts Votes: 0

Do no depend on others' ideas or concepts because inside yourself is the Wisdom. For the Few. Votes: 0

The great concepts of oneness and of majestic order seem always to be born in the desert. Votes: 0

Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite. Votes: 0

Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself. Votes: 0

Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches. Votes: 0

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised. Votes: 0

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood. Votes: 0

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones. Votes: 0

As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought. Votes: 0

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience. Votes: 0

You have to take those concepts and prove them, a little bit like you do a PhD thesis. Votes: 0

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. Votes: 0

If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique. Votes: 0

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. Votes: 0

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts. Votes: 0

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. Votes: 0

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. Votes: 0

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight Votes: 0

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose. Votes: 0

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time. Votes: 0

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. Votes: 0

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard Votes: 0

I'm trying to illuminate how perilously narrow we draw the concepts of masculinity and sexuality in our male culture. Votes: 0

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong. Votes: 0

That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have. Votes: 0

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation. Votes: 0

Literature is not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It's made of words. Votes: 0

I don't cook 'concepts.' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor. Votes: 0

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer. Votes: 0

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance. Votes: 0

Nothing is more important than the formation of fictional concepts, which teach us at last to understand our own. Votes: 0

I mean by Society, the totality of concepts of all purely natural relations and institutions between man and man. Votes: 0

To be successful one must be willing to learn and apply new concepts and not be afraid of change. Votes: 0

Small Data is not about testing concepts - it is more to create the foundation for innovative brand thinking. Votes: 0

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work. Votes: 0

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts. Votes: 0

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics. Votes: 0

I love reality shows. The folks who dream up some of these concepts are either geniuses, or totally stoned. Votes: 0

Leaders identify, articulate, and summarize concepts that motivate others. Most important, they boil concepts down to an understandable idea. Votes: 0

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed. Votes: 0

There's a powerful sense of reality to our concepts, ... These are vehicles we think people would purchase and drive today. Votes: 0

We're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people, we're the human beings. Votes: 0

U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James. Votes: 0

Merely transferring the content of existing newspapers online and expecting payment won't work because they are two separate business concepts. Votes: 0

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value. Votes: 0

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. Votes: 0

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic. Votes: 0

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable. Votes: 0

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths. Votes: 0

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. Votes: 0

Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership. Votes: 0

Approach your business partners with concepts that they can get their heads around, and try to respond to their needs. Votes: 0

All the concepts, all knowings, all truths, all religous systems, all beliefs, fall away in the white light of eternity. Votes: 0

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part. Votes: 0

Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. Votes: 0

There is a distressing tendency of the L&D profession to latch on to half read and barely understood concepts. Votes: 0

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality. Votes: 0

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography. Votes: 0

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions. Votes: 0

We speak of virtue, honour, reason; but our thought does not translate any one of these concepts into a substance. Votes: 0

But in college, we can wear our alcohol abuse as proudly as our university sweatshirts; the two concepts are virtually synonymous. Votes: 0

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. Votes: 0

Its mostly the ideas and concepts that we don't like at first, that eventually become the ideas and concepts we love. Votes: 0

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. Votes: 0

Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. Votes: 0

In neither his definition nor the examples illustrating what memes are does Dawkins mention anything that would distinguish memes from concepts. Votes: 0

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to. Votes: 0

Philosophy has a great sort of appeal in terms of an artistic or aesthetic organization of concepts. It's a conceptual art. Votes: 0

Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows. Votes: 0

The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science. Votes: 0

[ Dalton Trumbo] always said he fought so many fights, all seemingly different, but all about the concepts of fairness and justice. Votes: 0

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. Votes: 0

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. Votes: 0

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us. Votes: 0

Amazement and wonder signify that one's concepts of self and of the world and of other people are ready to be re-formed. Votes: 0

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought. Votes: 0

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts. Votes: 0

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment. Votes: 0

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises. Votes: 0

If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy. Votes: 0

The ego is a false sense based on mental concepts. It is identification with the body and the mind-primarily identification with thought form. Votes: 0

If you listen to the traffic with a clear mind, without any concepts, it is not noisy, it is only what it is. Votes: 0

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. Votes: 0

I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts. Votes: 0

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts. Votes: 0

What I'm trying to do is deliver results, not promises; results, not vision; results, not concepts. The world is cynical about IBM's promises. Votes: 0

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. Votes: 0

Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads. Votes: 0

In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality. Votes: 0

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world. Votes: 0

When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary ideas. Votes: 0

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance. Votes: 0

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition. Votes: 0

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing Votes: 0

Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. Votes: 0

In the Bible, there is no mention of the Trinity. . . . We get to know God, not through our proud philosophical concepts, but through Christ. Votes: 0

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. Votes: 0

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. Votes: 0

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other. Votes: 0

An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple. Votes: 0

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living. Votes: 0

At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas. Votes: 0

Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts? Votes: 0

The way to do good basic design isn't actually to be really smart about it, but to try to have a few basic concepts. Votes: 0

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Votes: 0

Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death. Votes: 0

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave. Votes: 0

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. Votes: 0

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition. Votes: 0

Meditation transports one from the transient world of matter to the real world of dreamings, visions, and imaginings where idea is and concepts are born. Votes: 0

Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no science can exist. Votes: 0

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all. Votes: 0

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself. Votes: 0

This is what we do. Not so much argue as joust, in jest. We can't stop pushing and pulling the taffy of words and concepts. Votes: 0

Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. Votes: 0

What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into concepts... Votes: 0

The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself. Votes: 0

I do find that Western medicine is more and more open to proving energetic concepts. Why not, because modern physics is 100 percent based on it. Votes: 0

Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect. Votes: 0

The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite. Votes: 0

Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation. Votes: 0

Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent. Votes: 0

People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts. Votes: 0

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Votes: 0

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of "balance" and "deterrence". Votes: 0

In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things, even concepts, are alive. Votes: 0

A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'. Votes: 0

In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation. Votes: 0

People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact. Votes: 0

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 democracy. Votes: 0

When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader. Votes: 0

Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one The great grey rigid uniform combined Safety with virtue of the sun. Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind. Votes: 0

The real platform for religion is based on the concepts of compassion, respect and consideration, not just for human beings, but for all forms of life. Votes: 0

Much of coaching consists of teaching and communicating ideas, concepts and philosophies to the players and my education helped make me a much more effective coach. Votes: 0

"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States and Europe. Votes: 0

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts. Votes: 0

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain. Votes: 0

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them. Votes: 0

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts. Votes: 0

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise. Votes: 0

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy. Votes: 0

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word. Votes: 0

Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic. Votes: 0

As creatives, it's a hard thing to push, to make something you're truly excited about, especially if you've written 100 different concepts and they keep getting shot down. Votes: 0

It is quite possible that societies - much like individuals - collectively repress information, concepts, and ideas which would produce high anxiety levels if dealt with consciously. Votes: 0

Release old concepts and energies that keep you in self-punishment patterns. Release old stories and create from a place of love and self-validation. You are worth it! Votes: 0

All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. Votes: 0

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. Votes: 0

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy. Votes: 0

I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations. Votes: 0

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena. Votes: 0

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students. Votes: 0

In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain. Votes: 0

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed. Votes: 0

At that time two opposing concepts of the Game called forth commentary and discussion. The foremost players distinguished two principal types of Game, the formal and the psychological. Votes: 0

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. Votes: 0

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive? Votes: 0

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection Votes: 0

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business Votes: 0

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand. Votes: 0

Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book. Votes: 0

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses. Votes: 0

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization. Votes: 0

How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life? Votes: 0

All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations Votes: 0

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man. Votes: 0

Mathematics, in the development of its ideas, has only to take account of the immanent reality of its concepts and has absolutely no obligation to examine their transient reality. Votes: 0

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world. Votes: 0

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems. Votes: 0

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world. Votes: 0

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts. Votes: 0

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later. Votes: 0

Very often in mathematics the crucial problem is to recognize and discover what are the relevant concepts; once this is accomplished the job may be more than half done. Votes: 0

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else. Votes: 0

Photographers encode their concepts as photographic images so as to give others information, so as to produce models for them and thereby to become immortal in the memory of others. Votes: 0

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice. Votes: 0

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them. Votes: 0

Begin with bodhicitta, do the main practice without concepts,Conclude by dedicating the merit. These, together and complete,Are the three vital supports for progressing on the path to liberation. Votes: 0

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

In American math classes, we teach a lot of concepts poorly over many years. In the Asian systems they teach you very few concepts very well over a few years. Votes: 0

Marx's early manuscripts, with their roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism, derived fundamental concepts such as alienation from a conception of human nature - what we would call genetically determined. Votes: 0

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously. Votes: 0

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was. Votes: 0

Can it be that we, too, are ready to embrace the foul concepts of atheism? Somebody is tampering with America's soul, I leave it to you who that somebody is. Votes: 0

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again. Votes: 0

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. Votes: 0

The trend of offering individualized education plans, curricula, and lessons is going to help students tremendously. "Teaching to the middle" is one of the saddest concepts I've ever heard about. Votes: 0

In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves. Votes: 0

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way. Votes: 0

In order to achieve a true understanding of string theory, some new idea will be required, and most likely, some break with the concepts on which we've traditionally based physical theory. Votes: 0

Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles. Votes: 0

A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland. Votes: 0

Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions. Votes: 0

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. Votes: 0

There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability. Votes: 0

If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true. Votes: 0

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat. Votes: 0

The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order. Votes: 0

A literary work can only be received through symbols, through concepts - for that is what words are; but cinema, like music, allows for utterly direct, emotional, sensuous perception of the work. Votes: 0

The general statement that the mental faculties are class concepts, belonging to descriptive psychology, relieves us of the necessity of discussing them and their significance at the present stage of our inquiry. Votes: 0

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. Votes: 0

There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity. Votes: 0

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with. Votes: 0

Apart from an innate grasp of tactical concepts, a great coach must possess the essentials attributes of leadership which mold men into a cohesive, fighting team with an invincible will to victory. Votes: 0

Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your children these things and you will have taught them grandly. Votes: 0

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved. Votes: 0

The parallelism, or denial of any causation between mind and body, derives basically, and fallaciously, from a theory of substances as having complete concepts that include everything that is true of them. Votes: 0

Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities. Votes: 0

The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality. Votes: 0

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God. Votes: 0

If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for. Votes: 0

It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving. Votes: 0

In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy. Votes: 0

Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations. Votes: 0

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. Votes: 0

One of the greatest myths of all time is that so-called civilized man is no longer an animal, and for that reason can strive to disarm himself and grow fat with false concepts. Votes: 0

I suggest you take a look at yourself. Not the concepts, not the ideas, not the goods, not the bads. But a timeless purity of existence. A witness to the beauty that is. Votes: 0

Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success. Votes: 0

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before. Votes: 0

Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950] Votes: 0

I'm horrible at concepts. My life is random and my inspiration is random. But it's all written in a very specific time frame that says a lot about my life at the time. Votes: 0

Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response. Votes: 0

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 of the head and out of the heart Votes: 0

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality. Votes: 0

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve. Votes: 0

Earlier in my life, I performed a lot of music. Some of it because I felt it was a demonstration, or a representation of certain intellectual concepts that were very exciting and important. Votes: 0

Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship stays put, but the impression of movement persists Votes: 0

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way. Votes: 0

Green Giant contained a very strong and clear site and building design concept. Green Giant had strong formal, aesthetic and programmatic concepts, coupled with a good understanding and incorporation of 2030 Palette design strategies. Votes: 0

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, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway." Votes: 0

The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color. Votes: 0

With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away. Votes: 0

. . . integral wisdom involves a direct participation in every moment: the observer and the observed are dissolved in the light of pure awareness, and no mental concepts or attitudes are present to dim that light. Votes: 0

The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology. Votes: 0

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, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway. Votes: 0

I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not. Votes: 0

Learning astrology is like learning any foreign language. You already have the ideas, concepts, and experiences of your life within you; you are just learning a new language for what you are already experiencing. Votes: 0

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek. Votes: 0

People in the metros are busy making ends meet, but through my films, I like to give the reality of life a skip, and choose concepts which will give audiences a stress-free two-and-a-half hours. Votes: 0

Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger. Votes: 0

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that. Votes: 0

I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented... I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me. Votes: 0

When you're choosing the track list and the sequencing, it's important to make sure that there's some strong concepts on there and that it matters and it says something... that it sticks with people. Votes: 0

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it. Votes: 0

We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the name of that most collectivist of concepts: The Common Good. Votes: 0

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process. Votes: 0

The Zen Master was constantly attempting to break up concepts that people had about what it was like to be a spiritual teacher. We have a traditional image. Each Zen master was a complete character. Votes: 0

Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it. Votes: 0

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. Votes: 0

For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and principles by means of which new theories can be created. Votes: 0

The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition. Votes: 0

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control. Votes: 0

If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics. Votes: 0

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively. Votes: 0

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts. Votes: 0