Rene Descartes on action
Rene Descartes54 quotes“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.”
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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes To live well is to live concealed.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The destruction of the foundations necessarily brings down the whole edifice.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes 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.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
Rene DescartesRene Descartes Masked, I advance.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
Rene DescartesRene Descartes When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe In doubt if an action is just, abstain.
ZoroasterZoroaster Don’t think about things, just do them; don’t predict them, just make them.
Ray BradburyRay Bradbury Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
Dorothy ParkerDorothy Parker Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.
Ibn TaymiyyahIbn Taymiyyah However much you study, you cannot know without action. A donkey laden with books is neither an intellectual nor a wise man. Empty of essence, what learning has he whether upon him is firewood or book?
SaadiSaadi We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
Martin LutherMartin Luther
