Rene Descartes Quotes About Doubt

• Doubt is the origin of wisdom

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• ... moral certainty is certainty which is sufficient to regulate our behaviour, or which measures up to the certainty we have on matters relating to the conduct of life which we never normally doubt, though we know that it is possible, absolutely speaking, that they may be false.

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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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  "Principles of Philosophy". Book by Rene Descartes, 1644.

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• I can doubt everything, except one thing, and that is the very fact that I doubt. Simply put - I think, therefore I am

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• The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

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  "Discourse on the Method". Book by Rene Descartes, 1637.

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• I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

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• 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

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  Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross (2003). “Discourse on Method and Meditations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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