Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
Rene DescartesThe principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.
Rene DescartesThe entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind's eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.
Rene Descartes