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

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

"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."

"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."