The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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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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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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