(Frans Hals : Portrait of René Descartes, 1649)

For myself, I have never fancied my mind to be in any respect more perfect than those of the generality; on the contrary, I have often wished that I were equal to some others in promptitude of thought, or in clearness and distinctness of imagination, or in fulness and readiness of memory. (René Descartes (1596–1650): Discourse on Method)

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