When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
RENE DESCARTESTruths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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But what then am I? A thing that thinks. What is that? A thing that doubts, understand, affirms, denies, wills, refuses, and that also imagines and senses.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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