Tidbits from Montaigne 2

In my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say such a one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference between memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. 

But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment. 

—Michel de Montaigne, Essays 1.9