Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESEach problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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Masked, I advance.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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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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It is a common failing of mortals to deem the more difficult the fairer.
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When I turn my mind’s eye upon myself, I understand that I am a thing which is incomplete and dependent on another and which aspires without limit to ever greater and better things…
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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 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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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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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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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