Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Learning
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He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Un peu de chaque chose, et rien du tout, a la francaise.
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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 guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.
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A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.
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Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is, like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship, opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
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In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk- they are all part of the curriculum.
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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
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Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, research is the means of all learning, and ignorance is the end.