The greatest part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers, who fall short of the truth, and that of abstruse thinkers, who go beyond it.
Empiricism, skepticism
A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part III, Section VII
1739-1740
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