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

Quote by Rene Descartes

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The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it...

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it...

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by...

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by...

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

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

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it...

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it...

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody...

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody...

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said...

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said...

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of...

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of...

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which...

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which...

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been...

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been...

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

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

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that...

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that...

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to...

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to...

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which...

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which...

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the...

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the...

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps...

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps...

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a...

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a...