I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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Nothing is made from nothing.
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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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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
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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.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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