Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESI 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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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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 reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
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