I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
RENE DESCARTESI am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.
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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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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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Nothing is made from nothing.
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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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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So 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.
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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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When it is not in our power to determine what it true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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