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7 months agoDoubt is the origin of wisdom.
It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Also, I am not a drunken fart.
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.
How do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?