31 Most Inspiring Rene Descartes Quotes On Success

“For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.” ― Rene Descartes

“Hope is the desire of the soul to be convinced that the dream will come true.” ― René Descartes

“The thinking of the mind is twofold: understanding and willing.” ― René Descartes

“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” ― René Descartes

“Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.” ― Rene Descartes

“But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.” ― Rene Descartes

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.” ― Rene Descartes

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

“Control your body if you want your mind to work properly.” ― Rene Descartes

“The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.” ― René Descartes

“Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.” ― Rene Descartes

“Everything is self-evident.” ― Rene Descartes

“The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.” ― Rene Descartes

“Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.” ― René Descartes

“Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.” ― Rene Descartes

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. It is not good enough to have good talent, the main thing is to apply it well.” ― Rene Descartes

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

“When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.” ― Rene Descartes

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.” ― Rene Descartes

“If you want to develop your mind you should think more, not repeat.” ― René Descartes

“When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.” ― Rene Descartes

“One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.” ― Rene Descartes

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” ― Rene Descartes

“Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.” ― Rene Descartes

“We do not see the world we see, we see the world we can describe.” ― Rene Descartes

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.” ― Rene Descartes

“It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.” ― Rene Descartes

“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.” ― Rene Descartes

“The dreams we imagine when we are asleep should not in any way make us doubt the truth of the thoughts we have when we are awake.” ― Rene Descartes

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

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