All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
RENE DESCARTESWhen it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Masked, I advance.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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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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