Famous quotes containing the word conceive:
“Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that “we, the people,” should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head.... But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“Priest: Can’t you conceive of a truth too great for the human mind to analyze?
Dr. Henryk Savaard: Tonight, no. But tomorrow, I may know better.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)