It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
¶ Le Discours de la Méthode
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René Descartes (1596-1650) French mathematician and philosopher
Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.
¶ Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)
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.
¶ Le Discours de la Méthode (1637)
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