Education Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

To philosophize is to learn to die.

— Michel de Montaigne

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

— Michel de Montaigne

I do not teach. I relate.

— Michel de Montaigne

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

— Michel de Montaigne

The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

— Michel de Montaigne

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

— Michel de Montaigne

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

— Michel de Montaigne

The profit we possess after study is to have become better and wiser.

— Michel de Montaigne

I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is my own.

— Michel de Montaigne

Among the liberal arts, let us begin with the art that liberates us.

— Michel de Montaigne

Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

— Michel de Montaigne

Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.

— Michel de Montaigne

In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden…

— Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

— Michel de Montaigne

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have…

— Michel de Montaigne

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

— Michel de Montaigne

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world…

— Michel de Montaigne

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the…

— Michel de Montaigne

I seek in books only to give myself pleasure by honest amusement; or if I study, I seek only the learning that…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“I know nothing about education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie…

— Michel de Montaigne

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

“The majority of our polities, as Aristotle says, are like the Cyclops, abandoning the guidance of the women and children to each…

— Michel de Montaigne

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui…

— Michel de Montaigne

Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making…

— Michel de Montaigne

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Let the tutor not merely require a verbal account of what the boy has been taught but the meaning and the substance…

— Michel de Montaigne

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we…

— Michel de Montaigne

A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a…

— Michel de Montaigne

“You never speak about yourself without loss. Your self-condemnation is always accredited, your self-praise discredited. There may be some people of my…

— Michel de Montaigne

Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to…

— Michel de Montaigne

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone…

— Michel de Montaigne

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

— Michel de Montaigne

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it…

— Michel de Montaigne

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

— Michel de Montaigne

In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.

— Michel de Montaigne