Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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 am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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