Since all our mistakes are due to judgment, it is obvious that if we don't need to judge, we don't need to learn, we don't need to deceive ourselves, and then ignorance will be far happier than knowledge.Men of knowledge are not nearer to the truth, but the farther they advance, the farther away they are from the truth, for the conceit of their judgments grows much faster than their knowledge, and for every truth they acquire a hundred false conclusions.Everyone knows that the intellectual societies of Europe are academies of error, and that one academy has made more mistakes than all the American Indians put together.
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