Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.

It is to the body alone that we should attribute everything that can be observed in us to oppose our reason.

In the matter of a difficult question it is more likely that the truth should have been discovered by the few than by the many.

Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.

If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error.

Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.