Famous quotes containing the word conceive:
“We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world—except a woman-governed world.”
—Nancy Astor (1879–1964)
“Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)