Essays, Book 3, ch. 13 "On Experience [De l’Experience]" (1588) (3.13) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987)] - Montaigne, Michel de | WIST Quotations
No desire is more natural than the desire for knowledge. We assay all the means that can lead us to it. When reason fails us we make use of experience. Experience is a weaker and less dignified means: but truth is so great a matter that we must not disdain…
