It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESThat we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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