In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt 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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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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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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