Marcel Proust Quotes

Habit! that skilful but slow-moving arranger who begins by letting our minds suffer for weeks on end in temporary quarters, but whom our minds are none the less only too happy to discover at last, for without it, reduced to their own devices, they would be powerless to make any room seem habitable.

Marcel Proust

Quotes to Explore

You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

Fran Tarkenton
- Up
- Different
- Learn
The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Abdoulaye Wade
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Gaston Bachelard
- Never
- Will
- Two
I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon. I also wanted to be a heart surgeon. That was motivated by the fact that my young aunt, a sister of my dad, died in her early 20s of a correctable heart disease.

Magdi Yacoub
- Heart
- Father
- Dad
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.

Warwick Davis
- Character
- Movie
- Think
Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.

Karl Marx
- Taken