#conception

People have lots of misconceptions about me. My mum, who is half French and half Spanish, gets outraged when I'm called quintessentially English. I owe my looks to my mum-which was 90 percent of getting my first job. And, some people would argue, 90 percent of my entire career. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#argue #called #career #english #entire

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#dead #given #god #himself #life

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#conceptions #go #happier #lot #love

An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#atmosphere #been #beliefs #breathe #circumstances

Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#center #centuries #conception #consensus #earth

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#conception #dead #experience #experiences #gain

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#changes #clear #conception #function #mind

Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#conception #confirm #either #film #idea

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#conservative #ever #generally #i #life

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