Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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