Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESBut what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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