Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

Nicolas Malebranche

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• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Insanity

• I went on tour with Beyonce before. I wouldn't mind doing something with her.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Mind
  • Tour
  • Her

• What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Understanding
  • Justice
  • Empathy

• The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Passion

• I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • House

• We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

  

  Lucy Stone
  • Money
  • House
  • Sex

• Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Study

• In my mind, I still think - and wish - that I'm going to be a journalist or a writer. That's been my dream job my entire life.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Job

• When I think about the most exotic, beautiful places, Porto is at the front of my mind. It's incredible, man. You have an idea of what Europe is like as an American, and people talk about Paris, Berlin and Stockholm, which are all great, but it wasn't until I went to Porto that I felt that idea of this exotic, beautiful, timeless place.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• I don't mind walking guys as long as I don't give up runs.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Mind

• If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?

  

  Jacqueline Emerson
  • House

• The idea of building a Near Eastern house in Honolulu must seem fantastic to many.

  

  Doris Duke
  • House

• When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Mind

• Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Children
  • House
  • Winter

• I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Work
  • She
  • American

• It is hard to be enthusiastic about the economy's prospects when house prices are falling: Households spend less, small business owners can't use homes as collateral for loans and local governments are forced to cut jobs and programs as property-tax revenue disappears.

  

  Mark Zandi
  • Business
  • House
  • Small

• If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

  

  Tony Evans
  • God
  • House
  • Attention

• A lot of people forget that today. They come to the point where you walk on a set and the first thing you know you're looking at the sound man and you're saying to yourself, "How the hell can they get any sound when nobody is talking!" They get all mumbly. You can't make out what they're saying! And you're 6 feet away from them! Whereas in the old-time movies, you hear them, you understand every word they're saying, and you didn't have to put on your loudspeaker.

  

  Ernest Borgnine
  • Movies
  • Forget
  • Sound

• Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

  

  Kent Nerburn
  • Time

• I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • City

• I've always loved artists - creative, spontaneous, laid-back people - but I wasn't meeting these types in real life. So I figured that, given I run a technology company, I should also trust technology to help me find the love of my life.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Mind
  • House
  • Understanding