We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to… — 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
