The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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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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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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