It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESDivide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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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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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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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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I think; therefore I am.
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I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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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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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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