An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

Your will is the one power in you with no limit, which makes it the part of you most like God. It also makes it easy to judge too fast. The fix is to hold back your yes or no on anything you don’t yet see clearly.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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