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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At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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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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Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.
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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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To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
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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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One should never judge anything unless it is known
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I continue to think I am something.
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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 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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To think? That’s it. It is thought. This alone cannot be detached from me. I am, I exist; that is certain.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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