Ignorance Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

— Michel De Montaigne

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

— Michel de Montaigne

The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

— Michel de Montaigne

He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea.

— Michel de Montaigne

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

— Michel de Montaigne

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

— Michel de Montaigne

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality…

— Michel de Montaigne

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort…

— Michel de Montaigne

What am I to choose? "Choose what you please, as long as you choose." There you have a foolish answer, which seems…

— Michel de Montaigne

Tis well for old age that it is always accompanied with want of perception, ignorance, and a facility of being deceived. For…

— Michel de Montaigne

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

— Michel de Montaigne

A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

— Michel de Montaigne

Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility…

— Michel de Montaigne