#concept

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #concealment #empowerment #feminism #ignorance

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#philosophy #theory #words #money

There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#conceptual #content #few #few things #hard

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

— Ansel Adams

#concept #fuzzy #image #nothing #sharp

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#conception #concrete #responsibility #universal #vanishes

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

#get #i #i can #i think #idea

I tried to be as thorough as I can, but there is a responsibility that we all have, especially with something like AA which is dependant on anonymity. Once you start banging on about it the whole time, you are potentially damaging the whole concept of it. ↗

— Jack Dee

#anonymity #banging #concept #damaging #especially

For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. ↗

— Suzy Bogguss

#concept #intimidating #reason #some #swing

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

#admired #concept #dispute #lack #living

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 #just #law #mechanic #organic