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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
