Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. Jonathan Swift
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed. Ernest Renan
One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing. William Stanley Jevons
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision the clockmaker. The human mind is unable to conceive of the four dimensions, so how can it conceive of a God, before whom a thousand years and a thousand dimensions are as one? Albert Einstein
There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. Henry George