Rene Descartes

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

— Rene Descartes

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Rene Descartes

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

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

— Rene Descartes

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Rene Descartes

Everything is self-evident.

— Rene Descartes

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

— Rene Descartes

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

— Rene Descartes

I think therefore I am.

— Rene Descartes