We only toil and labour to stuff the memory, and in the mean time leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. [Nous ne trauaillons qu’à remplir la memoire, et laissons l’entendement et la conscience vuide.]
Source:The works of Michael de Montaigne (ed. J. W. Moore, 1849), Book I, Chapter XXIV. Of Pedantry, Page 80