Concept Quotes

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde

Society, Real, Mental

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.
John Lennon

God, Pain, Measure

The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus

Truth, Essential, Absurd

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
Steve Jobs

Car, Understand, Study

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand Russell

Power, Science, Same

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.
Hillary Clinton

Human, American, Security

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell

History, Truth, Lies

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell

Universal, Aware, Awareness

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
P. J. O'Rourke

Death, Children, Him

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams

Nothing, Worse, Image

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert

Together, Two, Living

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody Allen

Money, Idea, Turn

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Stephen King

God, Powerful, Awesome

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
Muhammad Iqbal

Human, Ego, May

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Sometimes, Wrong, Profound

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
Marilyn Manson

Change, Art, School

A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

History, Game, Young

I have always been fond of recognizing the spiritual side of someone's personality. It's a very lovely concept.
Drew Barrymore

Spiritual, Someone, Lovely

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams

God, Whole, Based

Reality: What a concept!
Robin Williams

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse

History, Writing, Humanity

The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
Bo Bennett

Success, Good, Society

What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy, Law, Separation

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
David Lynch

Absurdity, Attracted

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
Gail Sheehy

Good, Successful, Understand

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.
William Shatner

Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.
Robert Orben

God, Used, Planned

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.
Christopher Hitchens

Loneliness, Exile, Bucks

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers

War, Thought, Understand

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
Ted Nugent

Wise, Father, Words

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