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Our Own Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- It is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must walk. And on…
- We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
- Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see…
- We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to…
- We are all of us richer than we think we are; but we are taught to borrow and to beg, and brought up more to…
- To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is…
- Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons,…
- I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we…
- All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
- On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.
- Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
More Our Own Quotes
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time. — Margaret Atwood
- Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best. — Jane Austen
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann