The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them nor intuition without concepts can yield knowledge.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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

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.

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

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

If you asked somebody 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement knowledge ' God knows - I mean many many different things but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue bring some sanity back into the financial sector and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

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.

We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past just as it is bound to modify the future.

I think that the present is worth attention one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of of this future or that future.

I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.