Discourse Part 2

"And as for myself, I would unquestionably have been counted among these latter persons if I had always had only one master or if I had not known at all the differences that have always existed among the opinions of the most learned.....And I considered how one and the same man with the very same mind, were he brought up from infancy among the French or the Germans, would become different from what he would be had he always lived among the Chinese or the cannibals, and how, even down to the styles of our clothing, the same thing that pleased us ten years ago, and that perhaps will again please us ten years, hence, now seems to us extravagant and ridiculous.

Here Descartes makes a very valuable point. I agree that the ideas of one single person are more understandable and as close to the truth as you can possibly get, over the ideas of many people. If you think about it, one persons ideas are right to the point, so you don't have multiple views on a certain subject, but with the point of view of more than one person, it leaves room for doubt and less truth.