Rene Descartes Quotes

The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

Rene Descartes

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• Travel
• Forsake
• Great Minds

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• Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Quantity

• Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Success
  • Summer
  • Integrity

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Hard
  • For Him

• One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Questions

• People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Up
  • Look

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• Every girl has days when she doesn't like her appearance, but it's when you feel happy in yourself that you look good.

  

  Hannah Tointon
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Let every man be true and every god a liar.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Life
  • May
  • Remember

• 'Cause what she's doin' now is tearin' me apart,Fillin' up my mind and emptyin' my heart.I can hear her call each time the cold wind blows,And I wonder if she knows...what she's doin' now.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mind

• When you work on a film, it's important to feel that you are starting afresh and doing it for the first time. Also, it's important to have those butterflies in your stomach; you need to wonder how you are going to approach the character and whether you will be able to do justice to the part.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• It's how I've been playing my whole life, guarding the best player on the other team.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Life
  • Team
  • Player

• In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • America
  • War
  • Slavery

• I'm very old. I haven't got time to be charming.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Time

• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

  

  Epictetus
  • Real
  • Death
  • Action

• The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.

  

  Jack Buck
  • Game
  • Travel
  • Blind

• I guess, growing up at Australia Zoo and getting to travel all over the world, I have this great outlook on life, and that's what I hope I inspire other kids to have.

  

  Bindi Irwin
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellencies, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations; and those who travel very slowly may yet make far greater progress, provided they keep always to the straight road, than those who, while they run, forsake it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Road
  • Travel
  • Forsake