Descartes’ famous sayings about learning are as follows:

1. It is not enough to have excellent intelligence. The important question is how to use it well.

2. As long as a person with very bad behavior starts to follow the right path, he will be much further ahead than those who leave the wrong path and run quickly.

3. Supportive opinions are helpful to me in two ways. On the one hand, they make me realize my mistakes, and on the other hand, what a few people see is clearer than what one person sees.

4. My efforts in studying have not yielded any other benefits, except that I am increasingly aware of my ignorance.

5. Reading good books is like visiting the sages who wrote books and having a heart-to-heart talk with them, and it is a superb conversation.

6. Make the pursuit of truth your lifelong career.

7. A person who is dominated by emotions has no right to act independently and is at the mercy of fate.

8. Reading all good books means talking to many noble people. All good books read like conversations with some of the most brilliant people in the world from the past.

9. In this world, conscience is distributed most fairly.

10. People who act very corruptly, as long as they start by following the right path, can be much ahead of those who leave the right path and run away.