Pierre Bayle Quotes

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.