Why do people respect the package rather than the man? - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

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

"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."

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

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