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Learning Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a…
- Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only…
- Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that…
- Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other…
- Learning must not only lodge with us: we must marry her.
- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at…
- Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.
- All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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