Rene Descartes Quotes
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
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A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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I just look at myself and think about what I can do to help the team. That's what everyone should be doing.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
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It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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But sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
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Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
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The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
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The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?
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I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.
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And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
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Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?
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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
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Growing up I wasn’t sure I was female. As I grew further I wanted to be a lesbian but I wasn’t sure I would meet even the most basic membership criteria (though eventually I created a ‘femme dyke’ persona that worked well for over fifteen years). It wasn’t until my early twenties that I was sure of at least one thing: I was an artist. Quite an accomplishment for anyone assigned female at birth in a culture that calls only male artists ‘great’.
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I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.
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I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
