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Rene Descartes Quotes

Rene Descartes quotes about doubt

French Mathematician March 31, 1596 – February 11, 1650

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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. Rene Descartes
Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of..."
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.(English: "I doubt, therefore I..."
Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I..."
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt. Rene Descartes
I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions. Rene Descartes
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 th eincreasing discovery of my own ignorance Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "Doubt is the origin of wisdom"
Doubt is the origin of wisdom Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "Dubium sapientiae initium (Doubt is the origin of wisdom)."
Dubium sapientiae initium (Doubt is the origin of wisdom). Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes quote: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am."
I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am. Rene Descartes

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