To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
Category: Behavior
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.
Category: Books And Reading
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Category: Common Sense
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.
Category: Doubt
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Category: Insults
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Category: Mind
There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
Category: Philosophers And Philosophy
Everything is self-evident.
Category: Reality
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Category: Simplicity
I think therefore I am.
Category: Thoughts And Thinking
Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
Category: Thoughts And Thinking