Joseph Glanvill Quotes

The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

Joseph Glanvill

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• Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Modeling

• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Reading

• With 3D you're right there immersed in the world.

  

  Ang Lee
  • World

• Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Music
  • Filters

• Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Stage
  • Lasts

• Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Glory
  • Articles
  • Dinners

• If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Dream
  • Earth
  • Disaster

• No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Chances
  • Valley
  • Dances

• I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reading

• Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Passions
  • Trauma
  • Devastation

• A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sea
  • Interpretation
  • Contradictions

• The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

  

  Joseph Glanvill
  • Passions
  • Verity
  • Prejudicial