Mind Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

— Michel de Montaigne

We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there.

— Michel de Montaigne

'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

— Michel de Montaigne

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

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It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not…

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

— Michel de Montaigne

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

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

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within…

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If my mind could gain a firm footing, I would not make essays, I would make decisions; but it is always in…

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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

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that…

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Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

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A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist…

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I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for…

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The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know…

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Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly…

— Michel de Montaigne

Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no…

— Michel de Montaigne

Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind…

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The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated…

— Michel de Montaigne

I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate…

— Michel de Montaigne

If these Essays were worthy of being judged, it might fall out, in my opinion, that they would not find much favour,…

— Michel de Montaigne

In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other…

— 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…

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As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide…

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To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let…

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I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants…

— Michel de Montaigne

Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality;…

— Michel de Montaigne

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

— Michel de Montaigne

All permanent decisions are made in a temporary state of mind.

— Michel de Montaigne

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

— Michel de Montaigne

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

— Michel de Montaigne

No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.

— Michel de Montaigne

The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting…

— Michel de Montaigne

Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen,…

— Michel de Montaigne