Rene Descartes Quotes

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

Rene Descartes

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• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

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• To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

  

  Nancy Mitford
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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
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• There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.

  

  Fairfax Cone
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• I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

  

  Adam Grant
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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
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• Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• Obviously, a lot of things play on your mind when you're batting. This might happen and this might not. The best thing you can do when you're batting is not to think too much, and wait for the next ball.

  

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

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• I wouldn't mind going half naked on stage, if that is what my role demands.

  

  Randeep Hooda
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• I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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• The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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• To save one life, Mr. Tagomi had to take two. The logical, balanced mind cannot make sense of that. A kindly man like Mr. Tagomi could be driven insane by the implications of such reality.

  

  Philip K. Dick
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• The rapidity with which one can completely change one’s ideas . . . and accommodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful.

  

  Alfred Lansing
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  • Barbarism

• Grigsby's marvelous exploration-a deep, wide, and beautiful inquiry into Sojourner Truth's use of technology-features more of her photographs than have ever been collected before. Among its many insights, I especially relished the analysis of Truth's illiteracy. Enduring Truths is art history with a wide-ranging concept of history left in. A terrific book, and one we've needed for a long time.

  

  Nell Irvin Painter
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• We don't want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People

• The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mind
  • Ideas
  • Analysis