Conceptions Quotes

“By and large, the truth is not merely a fierce battle with ignorance and fallacy, but, first and foremost, a combat with our own preconceived ideas and aprioristic conceptions. ("The hidden sides of his character" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.”
― Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

“So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.”
― William James

“The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“The darkest night in someone's life may be the brightest day in another person's life. Life rests on perceptions and conceptions or missed perceptions and misconceptions. You can choose to make good things out of every challenging circumstance. In contrast, you can also choose to see nothing in a creative opportunity.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.”
― Deyth Banger