Truth Quotes by Michel de Montaigne

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

— Michel de Montaigne

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

— Michel de Montaigne

I quote others only to better express myself.

— Michel De Montaigne

There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other

— Michel de Montaigne

For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts.

— Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

— Michel de Montaigne

I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.

— Michel de Montaigne

It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."

— Michel de Montaigne

A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

— Michel de Montaigne

What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?

— Michel de Montaigne

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

— Michel de Montaigne

How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just…

— Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so…

— Michel de Montaigne

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to…

— Michel de Montaigne

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not,…

— Michel de Montaigne

In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our…

— Michel de Montaigne

Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney…

— Michel de Montaigne

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

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said,…

— 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

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

The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to…

— Michel de Montaigne

Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in…

— 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

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth…

— 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

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

— Michel de Montaigne

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

— Michel de Montaigne

“There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger”

— Michel de Montaigne

I may indeed very well happen to contradict myself; but truth, as Demades said, I do not contradict.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

— Michel de Montaigne

The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

— Michel de Montaigne

Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time,…

— Michel de Montaigne

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The way of truth is one and artless: the way of private gain and success in such affairs as we are entrusted…

— Michel de Montaigne

What of a truth that is bounded by these mountains and is falsehood to the world that lives beyond?

— Michel de Montaigne

“If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards…

— Michel de Montaigne

Truth and reason are common to everyone, and are no more his who spake them first than his who speaks them after.

— Michel de Montaigne