The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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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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Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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To live well is to live concealed.
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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am.
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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all 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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Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them?
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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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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