“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eye
“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss
“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
“First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe