#concept

As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually. ↗

— Chris Ware

#almost #children #concepts #dismiss #engaging

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. ↗

— James D. Watson

#conception #contrast #could #dull #goodly

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

— Oscar Wilde

#exists #individuals #mental #only #real

I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#broad #clarify #conceptual #fit #i

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #concept #profound #sometimes #wrong

I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#always #any #blow #cos #everyone

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#children #come #concept #eventually #go

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day. ↗

— Danny Glover

#always #been #concept #country #day

What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever. ↗

— Seth Godin

#back #concept #connecting #forever #goes

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#aids #attention #awaken #being #belief