Si quis existimat se aliquid scire, nondum cognovit quomodo oportet illud scire.
L'homme qui présume de son savoir ne sait pas encore ce que c'est que savoir.
And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Michel de Montaigne
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6.11.10
Montaigne's ceiling • Le plafond de Montaigne
The inscriptions shown below include one from the New Testament - 1.Corinthians VII, 2:
Si quis existimat se aliquid scire, nondum cognovit quomodo oportet illud scire.
L'homme qui présume de son savoir ne sait pas encore ce que c'est que savoir.
And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
Si quis existimat se aliquid scire, nondum cognovit quomodo oportet illud scire.
L'homme qui présume de son savoir ne sait pas encore ce que c'est que savoir.
And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.
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two more paraphrases:
ReplyDeleteThe man who prides himself upon his knowledge does not yet possess it.
Ignorant the man who vaunts his knowledge.
see also Ecclesiastes VII, 16