Henri Bergson Quotes

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 18, 1859 - January 4, 1941

Topics

IntelligenceOrganizedInstinctEven

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

Andy Sawford

TimeWelcomeHelpWillHousing

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Jeanette Winterson

SituationAlwaysSeeRogueHappens

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Mia Wasikowska

AgeExpectationsYouChooseWayGet

The American people are tired of being told. They're tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They're tired of hearing politicians in both parties tell us that we'll get to that tomorrow while we pile a mountain range of debt on our children and our grandchildren.

Mike Pence

GoodChildrenMountainTiredPeople

Very good records exist about the Trail of Tears. Journals and other records kept by Cherokees and non-Indians tell such things as which people were where on which day.

Joseph Bruchac

GoodDayPeopleTearsTrailTell

If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance.

Denise Morrison

FatherI AmDreamWantRunCompany

I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, I think it's safe to say.

Chelsea Manning

ThinkSaySafeAdrenalineI Think

Humans are powerless, and even in our exercise of free will, either the Universe is gonna get down with your plan, or it isn't.

Courtney A. Kemp

FreeUniversePlanExerciseDown

I am a city girl I think, at heart.

Brooke Shields

GirlHeartI AmCityThinkI Think

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

Paula Radcliffe

PressureYouKnowWantAthlete

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

Richard Dawkins

ScienceDiversityGovernmentSchool

I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.

Martin Millar

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