Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
RENE DESCARTESExcept our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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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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Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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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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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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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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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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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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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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