Teach Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

I do not teach. I relate.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Anyone who teaches men how to die would teach them how to live.36”

— Michel de Montaigne

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

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we…

— Michel de Montaigne

Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above…

— Michel de Montaigne

Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui…

— Michel de Montaigne

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to…

— Michel de Montaigne

.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist…

— Michel de Montaigne

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we…

— Michel de Montaigne

What enriches language is its being handled and exploited by beautiful minds-not so much by making innovations as by expanding it through…

— 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