Rene Descartes on doubt
Rene Descartes54 quotes“I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.”
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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.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes 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.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes 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.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Masked, I advance.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes 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
Rene DescartesRene Descartes All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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Edward de BonoEdward de Bono Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt?
Abhinava GuptaAbhinava Gupta Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.
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