Rene Descartes Quotes

I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

Rene Descartes

• Error
• Amazed
• I Consider

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Healthy

• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Tired
  • Amazed
  • Runners

• No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Learning
  • Recognition
  • Error

• The best time to practice mental rehearsal is at night in bed, just before you fall asleep. The last thing you do before you doze off is to imagine yourself performing at your best the following day. You will be amazed at how often the upcoming event or experience happens exactly as you imagined it.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Night

• Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.

  

  James Hutton
  • Truth
  • Fail
  • Error

• Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Young

• Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked.

  

  Aristotle
  • Word
  • Error
  • Wicked Man

• For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowing
  • Error
  • Universal

• The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

  

  Aristotle
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Pleasure

• The classical error of historical Christianity is that we have never started with the value of the person. Rather, we have started from the 'unworthiness of the sinner,' and that starting point has set the stage for the glorification of human shame in Christian theology.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Value
  • Person
  • Christianity

• Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

  

  Plato
  • Error
  • Poets
  • Artisans

• It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Truth
  • Error
  • Possession

• A life without music is an error.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Music
  • Error

• Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  

  William James
  • Dream
  • Giving
  • Energy

• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Capacity
  • Depends

• Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life is
  • Error
  • Truth Is

• It is nonviolent non-cooperation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spirit
  • Error
  • Self-Sacrifice

• I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this - who will count the votes, and how.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Party
  • Vote
  • I Consider

• The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
  • Error

• Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Creation
  • Error

• To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

  

  Elaine Scarry
  • Relation
  • Error
  • Destroyed

• Whether surrounded with error or truth, the web woven around them in childhood's days lasts, and seldom wears threadbare...The traditions of my earliest recollection are so forcible upon me that it seems impossible for me to get rid of them. And so it is with others; hence the necessity of correct training in childhood.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Truth
  • Childhood
  • Error

• You have not been sticking your dirty fingers in my sauce,’’ Eve said, and pointed her wooden spoon at him. He quickly took the finger out of his mouth. ‘‘First off, they’re not dirty. I licked them first.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Dirty
  • Fingers
  • Sauce

• I am indeed amazed when I consider how weak my mind is and how prone to error.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Error
  • Amazed
  • I Consider