5 Rene Descartes Quotes on Wisdom

Rene Descartes quotes on wisdom

1. Dubium sapientiae initium.

7. It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

29. It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.

31. In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.

38. The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.