Montaigne:Judge yourself

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Like Socrates, Montaigne claims that what he knows best is the fact that he does not know anything much.
To undermine common beliefs and attitudes, Montaigne draws on tales of other times and places, on his own observations and on a barrage of arguments in the ancient Pyrhonian skeptical tradition, which encouraged the suspension of judgment as a middle way between dogmatic assertion and equally dogmatic denial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/montaignes-moment.html?hp