Opinion Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.

— Michel de Montaigne

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

— Michel de Montaigne

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

— Michel de Montaigne

“I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.”

— Michel de Montaigne

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

— Michel de Montaigne

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

— Michel de Montaigne

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

— Michel de Montaigne

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

— Michel de Montaigne

All opinions in the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end, although they differ as to the means of attaining…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

— Michel de Montaigne

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

— Michel de Montaigne

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

— Michel de Montaigne

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

— Michel de Montaigne

I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public…

— Michel de Montaigne

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

— Michel de Montaigne

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put…

— Michel de Montaigne

I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty…

— Michel de Montaigne

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and…

— 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

My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most…

— 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

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

We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a…

— Michel de Montaigne

The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as…

— Michel de Montaigne

Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within…

— Michel de Montaigne

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

— Michel de Montaigne

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them…

— Michel de Montaigne

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

— Michel de Montaigne

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is…

— Michel de Montaigne

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

— Michel de Montaigne

We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

— 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

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

— Michel de Montaigne