At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on the American tage, or any other in the world. We exhibit at present the novel and astonishing spectacle of a whole people deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conducive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favour of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.
Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.
Whatever your mind can conceive, you can achieve.
Life is whatever we conceive it to be.
Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Man can create nothing which he does not first conceive in THOUGHT.
You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
As Jeremy Bentham had asked about animals well over two hundred years ago, the question was not whether they could reason or talk, but could they suffer? And yet, somehow, it seemed to take more imagination for humans to identify with animal suffering than it did to conceive of space flight or cloning or nuclear fusion. Yes, she was a fanatic in the eyes of most of the country. . . Mostly, however, she just lacked patience for people who wouldn't accept her belief that humans inflicted needless agony on the animals around them, and they did so in numbers that were absolutely staggering.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
If I only try to solve the problems I set for myself, then I'm limited by what I can conceive of. I can't solve a problem I can't conceive. But if someone else gives me a visual problem, it can be out of the whole realm of my normal practice.
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.
Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve
When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting.