To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESI took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
RENE DESCARTESI doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESThe will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
RENE DESCARTESCommon sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESBut in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESThe reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
RENE DESCARTESConquer yourself rather than the world.
RENE DESCARTESIf 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.
RENE DESCARTESWith me, everything turns into mathematics.
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