To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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He who hid well, lived 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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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So far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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