To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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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Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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