Concepts Quotes

Concepts become forces when they resist one another

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

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.

The originator of a new concept...finds, as a rule, that it is much more difficult to find out why other people do not understand him, than it was to discover the new truth.

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

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

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The percept takes priority of the concept.

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.

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

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

A mans religion will rise no higher than his concept of God.

I thought that one of the things women like to do is eat. So I started working on a game concept based on eating.

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

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.

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

Reading a book about management isnt 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.

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

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.

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!

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature

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

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

[R]eligious concepts are parasitic upon moral intuitions.

May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

I’ve always loved fairytales, and I’ve loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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