It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
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I think; therefore I am.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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