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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• Forsake
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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Moral
  • Courage
  • Animal

• 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

• If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Failure
  • Child
  • Parent

• 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

• Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Women
  • Free
  • Rest

• 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

• My favourite TV show is... 'Downton Abbey.' The characters are wonderful, and the style is created so beautifully on screen. Everything from the table settings to the linen seem perfect to me. While I'm watching it, I'm in a totally different world.

  

  Mary Berry
  • World
  • Different
  • Perfect

• Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Change

• Canada's north is going to change a lot in the new few years. We have every resource imaginable up north.

  

  Jean Charest
  • Up

• We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be heaven!

  

  Joshua Chamberlain
  • Heaven
  • Pass
  • Scenes

• When I travel, it makes me wish I looked completely polished all the time. I don't. I live in sweats.

  

  Anna Faris
  • Time
  • Live
  • Wish

• 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