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Rene Descartes Quotes

I hope you find these Rene Descartes Quotes inspiring and motivational.

It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes

Related topics: Wisdom

I think therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen


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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu


 

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw

We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb

The opposite of courage in our society
is not cowardice, it is conformity.
- Rollo May

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

Many men go fishing all of their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau

Trust only movement.
Life happens at the level of events, not of words.
Trust movement.
- Alfred Adler

Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes,
and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau

It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We should not pretend to understand the world
only by the intellect.
The judgment of the intellect
is only part of the truth.
- Carl Jung

I do not believe in a fate that
falls on men however they act;
but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.
- The Buddha

All decisions and all actions
(and inactions) have consequences -
not rightness or wrongness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
they listen with the intent to reply.
- Stephen R. Covey

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes.
He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb

The highest and most beautiful things in life
are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but,
if one will, are to be lived.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

Too many people overvalue what they are not,
and undervalue what they are.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

It's not what you don't know that kills you,
it's what you know for sure that ain't true.
- Mark Twain

For time and the world do not stand still.
Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past or the present
are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
- The Buddha

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard

Men are disturbed not by things,
but by the view which they take of them.
- Epictetus

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust

I find hope in the darkest of days,
and focus in the brightest.
I do not judge the universe.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who is not everyday conquering some fear
has not learned the secret of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may never happen.
Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,
but only prisoners of their own minds.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
- Oscar Wilde

Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- William J. Clinton

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Everything deep is also simple
and can be reproduced simply
as long as its reference
to the whole truth is maintained.
But what matters is not what is witty
but what is true.
- Albert Schweitzer

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus

Know that you have a choice about
everything you do and everything you do not do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If I am capable of grasping God objectively,
I do not believe, but precisely because
I cannot do this I must believe.
- Soren Kierkegaard

There is so much we can never know.
Breathe deeply and relax into the not-knowing.
There is much that we do not have to know
in order to live joyfully.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life, but by
the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu


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