"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge……" — Michel De Montaigne
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
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- We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. — Michel de Montaigne
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649 Quotes by Michel De Montaigne
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- Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.
- Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.
- There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal…
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- In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
- It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole,…
- He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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- Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
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