“Therefore I beg you, reader,
not to rejoice too greatly if you
have read much, but if you have
understood much. Nor that you have
understood much, but that you have
been able to retain it. Otherwise it is
of little profit either to read or to understand.”
Hugh of St. Victor,
theologian
From his work, The Didascalicon
Today marks the anniversary of Hugh of St. Victor's death (1141)...