The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESWhenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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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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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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