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Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. -- Wallace Stevens

Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away. -- H.w.l. Poonja

The world is build on miss understanding and miss concept. -- Deyth Banger

All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept. -- Wei Wu Wei

an idea is a combination of other ideas. -- Scott Berkun

Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself. -- Franz Grillparzer

We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts. -- Abraham Kaplan

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete. -- Simon Mcburney

General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Apart from the representational content of an idea there is another component: its force and vivacity, its impetus. -- David Hume

The idea of it's great," I explain. "But then there's the actual thing of it. -- Kristopher Jansma

This added element can only be the concept that represents the intuition as a suitable subject for one form of judgment rather than another -- Anonymous

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. -- Immanuel Kant

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. -- Elizabeth Bowen

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas. -- Immanuel Kant

Ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways. -- James Davison Hunter

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts. -- James Frey

An idea is inevitably a coordination. It is a coming together of something that is separate or disorganized or incomplete. With an idea you begin to feel into the nature of that incompleteness.
"Nature and Idea" December 30, 1956 -- Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is an amazing creation of the human mind, which comes either as
a result of one's continuous endeavors for solving a certain problem or just
as a spark that lights up the considered problem. -- Eraldo Banovac

When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience has to be made, and consideration of how the information would best be applied. -- Peter Shepherd

I believe my concepts are more than just business, they are about our culture. -- Minoru Mori

A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction. -- Toba Beta

It's the idea that is a tiny push away from general acceptance and, when it gets that push, will change the world. The -- Michael Lewis

An idea can only be materialized with the help of a medium of expression, the inherent qualities of which must be surely sensed and understood in order to become the carrier of an idea. -- Hans Hofmann

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. -- Albert Einstein

An idea upon which attention is peculiarly concentrated is an idea which tends to realize itself. -- Charles Baudouin

When one has but a single idea he finds in it everything. -- Victor Hugo

Ideas are a mode of transportation, a vehicle that you can use to take yourself from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. -- Brian Tracy

sometimes the concepts exists but need to be related to new experience. -- Kalim Siddiqui

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. -- Charles Sanders Peirce

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. -- George Santayana

Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything. -- Gregory Of Nyssa

There is more power in starting your story from a little concept that we call the Organizing Idea, an idea that is an active expression meant to inspire experiences, not a brand statement. -- Gaston Legorburu

There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-the conviction that ideas matter ... That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters ... -- Ayn Rand

Conceptual art' is an oxymoron. Concepts are articulations of fact or supposition, not attributes of quality. -- Walter Darby Bannard

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind? -- George Berkeley

Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation. -- Paramahansa Yogananda

Above all things we must be aware of what I will call 'inert ideas'
- that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind
without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. -- Alfred North Whitehead

Now what's the idea?" I said "Now pay attention. This is the most important idea anyone -- Eric Skaggs

It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside. -- Arthur Dove

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea
that conserves it; ideas only save races. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything. Still, -- Greg Egan

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

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties. -- Henry Flynt

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it. -- Neil Gaiman

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world. -- William Macneile Dixon

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. -- Warren Buffett

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. -- Charles Dickens

The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. -- Rene Thom

Abstract ideas are connected in a systematic way to more concrete experiences. -- Steven Pinker

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever. -- Phil Cooke

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link. -- Friedrich Schiller

To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. -- Guy Deutscher

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see. -- Elizabeth Goudge

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. -- Ella Maillart

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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. -- Muhammad Iqbal

Thoughts are idea put on paper that transform into goals. -- Abdulazeez Henry Musa

To define something is to subordinate it to a tangle of intellectual relationships. And when you do that you destroy real understanding. -- Robert M. Pirsig

For it oft happens that a notion, when it is cloathed with words, seems tedious and operose and hard to be conceived, which yet being striped of that garniture, the ideas shrink into a narrow compass, and are viewed almost by one glance of thought. -- David Berman

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality. -- Joyce Brothers

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. -- Samuel Butler

But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it. -- Jane Austen

An idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice. -- Paul Coelho

Is an 'idea' an advance visualization of a piece? Part of a piece? If anything - if it hasn't already evaporated - it's one of the very first things sacrificed during the actual process of making something. -- Judith Schaechter

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself. -- Georges Braque

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. -- Ayn Rand

Our understanding is a faculty of concepts, i.e., a discursive understanding, for which it must of course be contingent what and how different might be the particular that can be given to it in nature and brought under its concepts. -- Immanuel Kant

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

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. -- Percy Williams Bridgman

True understanding is the spur of genius -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words. -- Henri Bergson

Understanding is aggregated knowledge that has transformed into a lifestyle. -- Sunday Adelaja

True ideas lead us into useful verbal and conceptual quarters as well as directly up to useful sensible termini. They lead to consistency, stability and flowing human intercourse. -- William James

To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions. -- Angela Harris

The idea is more important than the object. -- Damien Hirst

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything. -- Gregory Of Nyssa

Definitions only belong to those who need them. -- Darnell Lamont Walker

Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. -- Gregory Of Nyssa

It is impossible to conceive of idea apart from life. Every living thing has an idea of life, and every idea must have a living thing in which to arise. -- Dee Hock

The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality. -- Rudolf Steiner

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. -- Midge Decter

John looks at the motorcycle and he sees steel in various shapes and has negative feelings about these steel shapes and turns off the whole thing. I look at the shapes of the steel now and I see ideas. He thinks I'm working on parts. I'm working on concepts. -- Robert M. Pirsig

The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept. -- Samuel

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. -- Moses Mendelssohn

Concepts become forces when they resist one another -- Johann Friedrich Herbart

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. -- Albert Einstein

Ideas are driven by a single impulse: to be made manifest. -- Elizabeth Gilbert

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal -- Mary Baker Eddy

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain. -- William Shakespeare

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept. -- Bertrand Russell

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. -- Ayn Rand

It sounds formulaic now, but at the time, I was interested in the difference between the thing and the representation of the idea of the thing - the space between the two. -- David Salle

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences. -- Susanne Katherina Langer

The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object. -- Charles Sanders Peirce

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see its exact relationship with other things: for a thing is its relations and activities. -- Michael Oakeshott

Recognizing that words are symbols for ideas and not the ideas themselves. -- Ken Bain