Rene Descartes Quotes on Wisdom
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Dubium sapientiae initium.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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It is a mark of prudence never to trust wholly in those things which have once deceived us.
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In order to improve the mind, we ought less learn than to contemplate.
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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.