Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
RENE DESCARTESAt last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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He who hid well, lived well.
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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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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.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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