It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
RENE DESCARTESTo know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
RENE DESCARTESFor 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
RENE DESCARTESFor to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
RENE DESCARTESMind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
RENE DESCARTESIt is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
RENE DESCARTESIt is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
RENE DESCARTESSo far, I have been a spectator in this theatre which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.
RENE DESCARTESI desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto ‘to live well you must live unseen’.
RENE DESCARTESTo think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
RENE DESCARTESThere is nothing more ancient than the truth.
RENE DESCARTESAm I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
RENE DESCARTESThe first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESFor the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
RENE DESCARTESBad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
RENE DESCARTESThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
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