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Speaking the minds of others
“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.” I.26 “Of the education of children” (p.131) “Truth and reason are common to everyone, and no more belong to the man who first spoke them than to the man who says them later. … The bees plunder the flowers here…
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Groping, staggering, stumbling, and blundering
“As for the natural faculties that are in me, of which this book is the essay, I feel them bending under the load. My conceptions and my judgment move only by groping, staggering, stumbling, and blundering, and when I have gone ahead as far as I can, still I am not at all satisfied: I…