More - Rene Descartes Quotes

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)

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 Doubt

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

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 Books And Reading French Mathematician

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

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 Ability French Mathematician inspirational Quote of the Day

There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another

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I concluded that I might take as a general rule the principle that all things which we very clearly and obviously conceive are true: only observing, however, that there is some difficulty in rightly determining the objects which we distinctly conceive.

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If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.

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I think, therefor I am

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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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 Books And Reading

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once

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 Senses

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate

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 Introspection