It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESAll that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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