Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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