Famous quotes containing the word conceive:
“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.”
—René Descartes (1596–1650)
“To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.”
—Nancy Astor (1879–1964)