René Descartes Quotes

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.

"Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am")"

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

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

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

He who hid well, lived well.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems

Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)

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.

At last I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.