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Mind Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
- It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make…
- The first lessons with which we should irrigate his mind should be those which teach him to know himself, and to know how to die…
- In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life;…
- But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and…
- We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there.
- It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the…
- I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.
- Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and…
- Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes…
- Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must…
- Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once…
- There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not…
- 'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.
- It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
- Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
- Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
- It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is…
- I had rather fashion my mind than furnish it.
- To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
- To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death…
- The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.
- To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away from other things.
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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