(426 quotes found)
“Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong”
Edward O. Wilson
“Concepts of justice must have hands and feet or they remain sterile abstractions. The hands and feet we need are efficient means and methods to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost.”
Warren E. Burger
“In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us”
Dag Hammarskjold
“I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.”
Dorothy Parker
“We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.”
Dan Aykroyd
“There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.”
Ansel Adams
“Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.”
William Osler
“We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind.”
Albert Einstein
“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.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
