Rene Descartes Quotes
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
-
We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
-
A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
-
I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
-
It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
-
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
-
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
-
'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
-
If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
-
I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
-
I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
-
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
-
All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
-
Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
-
And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
-
They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
-
There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
-
They want to do all of their investigations. I don’t know. All of the thinking that goes into it. But we did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term. I hope they’re not looking at this politically. I do think we ought it to the American people to call it what it is.
-
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
-
I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. An actor like Al Pacino lives to act. I'm not sure though, there's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.
-
Was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?
-
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
-
I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'
-
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
