If you can conceive something in your mind and believe it to be true, then you can achieve it.
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.
There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story. . . . We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.
If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture
We must be convinced that abundance is the natural state of the Universe. To experience and accept abundance in our life, we must be convinced that as we conceive and believe, the Universe handles the details.
God. . . a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.
I live in New York City, where, if you're in a movie at a popular independent theater, you think you're king of the world, because you're in a bubble. So there's no way for me to properly conceive of the attention that the movie gets in a way that doesn't make me confused.
If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.
I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
An intelligent couple can read their Darwin and know that the ultimate reason for their sexual urges is procreation. They know that the woman cannot conceive because she is on the pill. Yet they find that their sexual desire is in no way diminished by the knowledge. Sexual desire is sexual desire and its force, in an individual's psychology, is independent of the ultimate Darwinian pressure that drove it. It is a strong urge which exists independently of its ultimate rationale.
No man worth his salt does not wish to be a husband and father; yet no man is raised to be a husband and father and no man would ever conceive of those relationships as instruments of his prime function in life. Yet every woman is raised, still, to believe that the fulfillment of these relationships is her prime function in life and, what's more, her instinctive choice.
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.
Conceive the inconceivable - then accomplish it.
I do not find God outside myself or conceive him except as my own and in me.
There are a lot of difficulties with people trying to conceive.
One of the Great Truths of human experience is that we will achieve only what we conceive. Life cannot get better than the picture of life we habitually carry around with us. But if we want to, there is a practical way to look at that picture and change it. Here is the way of the Treasure Map.
I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.