Greatness Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greatness Men Men Tormented Opinion Opinions Opinions Things Tormented Tormented Opinions
I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by what they do not know, but by what they know, and by the manner in which they… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their… — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them — Epictetus Copy Share Image
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are tormented over thoughts of their ex screwing another man. Woman anguish over the prospect that her ex loves someone else. Men think… — Sara Robichaud Copy Share Image
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age. — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image