Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Rene Descartes.
Top 25 Rene Descartes Quotes and Sayings
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
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 the increasing discovery of my own ignorance.
He who hid well, lived well.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
I think; therefore I am.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
There is nothing more ancient than the truth.
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.
You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Conquer yourself rather than the world.
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.
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.