Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

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• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Success
  • Strange
  • Quick

• There are a lot of bad people out there.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Bad People

• I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Shoulder
  • Reconstruction

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• I'm completely in love with the idea of love.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Completely

• I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Think
  • Play
  • I Can

• You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Society
  • Small

• Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Going
  • Putin

• Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • High
  • Voice
  • Notes

• A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Policy
  • Temporary

• I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • Women
  • Bond

• I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Name
  • Fake

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • World
  • Death
  • Transformation

• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• Things happen for a reason. I'm happy, but not I'm not satisfied with the things I'm doing.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • Things Happen

• There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

  

  Ashraf Barhom
  • Study

• I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Life
  • Opportunity

• Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Kindness

• I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • True

• If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

  

  Doris Day
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • True
  • Ideas
  • New