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 DESCARTESI suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
More Rene Descartes Quotes
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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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In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
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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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It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
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The will determines itself; it should not be described as blind, any more than vision should be described as deaf.
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.
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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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I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.
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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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For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
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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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Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by nation
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