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Quotes About Concept

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.
~ Herbert Hoover
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
~ Michael Graves
Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction
~ Remy de Gourmont
Conceptually, we may call truth what we cannot change; metaphorically, it is the ground on which we stand and the sky that stretches above us.
~ Hannah
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
~ Marilyn Manson
Truth happens to an idea
~ William James
Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse.
~ Isak Dinesen
What is truth? I think stating a truth could be dangerous, because we are locking something in and therefore making it harder for ourselves to change beyond that certain thought or concept.
~ Richard Brancatisano
My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.
~ Mister Lies
Truth as such is not a particularly important concept in naturalistic philosophy.
~ Phillip E. Johnson
Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth." -Taleswapper
~ Orson Scott Card
The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.
~ Tom Shadyac
Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.
~ William Blake
An experience, perceptual or conceptual, must conform to reality in order to be true
~ William James
We can not begin to administer justice without understanding the concept of truth and mercy.
~ Paul Bamikole
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.
~ L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game
Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.
~ Christy Leigh Stewart
Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.
~ Michael Chabon
As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect.
~ Michael Crichton
Here is the frightening aspect of the global supply chain," said Joe. "When there is a surge in demand, inventory goes to zero. Just-in-time manufacturing. Great concept! Horrible in a pandemic.
~ Michael Lewis
They were an invisible mob inside an ivory tower. The calls themselves irritated rather than informed her. "They'd do mental masturbation," said Charity. "Mental masturbation is actually an important concept. It's when you talk in circles for an hour and reach no decision.
~ Michael Lewis
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a source of religious belief thousands of years older than the Bible, describes the state of consciousness between lives (the Bardo) as a time when "the evil we have perpetrated projects us into spiritual separation." If the peoples of the East believed in a special spiritual location for evil doers, was this idea similar to the concept of purgatory in the Western world?
~ Michael Newton
A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.
~ Michael Oakeshott