“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Source: Emile or On Education
“Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.”
— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays
Book I, Ch. 26
Essais (1595), Book I
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