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

"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."

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

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

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

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."