Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I listen with attention to the judgement of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me… Now,the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
I have a vocabulary all my own. I pass the time when itis wet and disagreeable. Whenit is fine I do not wish to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share
