Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
He that had never seen a river, imagined the first he met with to be the sea. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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