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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

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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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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.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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