Memory Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

— Michel de Montaigne

Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

— Michel de Montaigne

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

— Michel de Montaigne

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

— Michel de Montaigne

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

— Michel de Montaigne

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

— Michel de Montaigne

Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

— Michel de Montaigne

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me… Now,the…

— Michel de Montaigne

“To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than…

— Michel de Montaigne

[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when…

— Michel de Montaigne

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

— Michel de Montaigne

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of…

— Michel de Montaigne

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

— Michel de Montaigne

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

— Michel De Montaigne