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.
RENE DESCARTESIt is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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All that is necessary to right action is right judgment, and to the best action the most correct judgment.
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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 took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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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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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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For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
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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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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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He who hid well, lived well.
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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
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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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To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
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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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