Rene Descartes Quotes
If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
Quotes to Explore
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.
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I started knitting in the Congress, and it was a scandal - like, big scandal.
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We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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Tarde quae credita laedunt credimus.
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It is sometimes difficult to avoid the impression that there is a sort of foreknowledge of the coming series of events.
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The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'
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Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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That is why a criminal trial is not a search for truth. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
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It is not against a body of uninterpreted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers.
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If ... it is not in my power to arrive at the knowledge of any truth, I may at least do what is in my power, namely, suspend judgement.
