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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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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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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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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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I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.
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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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