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
RENE DESCARTESDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
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It is best not to go on for great quest for truth , it will only make you miserable
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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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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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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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That we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects.
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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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Masked, I advance.
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Mind and soul of the man is entirely different from the body.
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With me, everything turns into mathematics.
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