Scientiam non ut possessio habeatur, sed sicut aliquid ab eo mutuatum.
Wisdom is not held by men as a possession, but as something on loan.
Thomas Aquinas – Italian philosopher and theologian (1224/25-1274), from his comment on Aristotle”s Metaphysics “Sententia libri Metaphysicae” (lib. 1 l. 3 n. 13)