It is especially difficult for modern people to conceive that our modern, scientific age might not be an improvement over the prescientific period.
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
In the Muslim world, much of it, they cannot conceive of something coming out of the United States that wouldn't be sanctioned by the government, because in their countries, everything is sanctioned by the government.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.
We never conceive the greatness of our fates.
The soul creates, the mind reacts. The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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.
Action can only be understood in relation to place; only by staying in place can the imagination conceive or understand action in terms of consequence, of cause and effect. The meaning of action in time is inseparable from its meaning in place.
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease. [Fr. , Ce que l'on concoit bien s'enonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisement. ]
I conceive of nothing, in religion, science or philosophy, that is more than the proper thing to wear, for a while.
A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.
You cannot conceive the many without the one.