Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only b... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."

"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."