When I find myself convinced, by the reason of another, of a false opinion, I do not so much learn what he has said to me that is new and the particular ignorance-that would be no great acquisition-as, in general, I learn my own debility and the treachery of my understanding, whence I extract the reformation of the whole mass.
Beste baten arrazoiak uste faltsu bat frogatzen didanean, ez dut hainbat ikasten esan didan berria eta horretan neukan jakineza (erdiespen eskasa litzateke) nola ikasten baitut neure ahulezia eta gure adimenaren tradiketa; hortik orobateko birmoldaketa ateratzen dut.