Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESHe who hid well, lived well.
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The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
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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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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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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Masked, I advance.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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