Rene Descartes on doubt
Rene Descartes54 quotes“I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.”
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes To live well is to live concealed.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Masked, I advance.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MoliereMoliere Man, I’m sick of doubt.
Jim MorrisonJim Morrison Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. A lover whose passion is extreme loves even the faults of the beloved.
MoliereMoliere Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
Meher BabaMeher Baba The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Let us not doubt that God has a father’s pity towards us, and that in the removal of that which is dearest to us He is still loving and kind.
Abraham ColesAbraham Coles Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
Edward de BonoEdward de Bono There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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