We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams… — 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
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Unless the knowledge gained from experience is reconditioned in each new situation, it is a rigid and a dangerous guide. — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement. — 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
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there. — 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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