Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Thinking
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C'est une epineuse entreprise, et plus qu'il ne semble, de suivre une allure si vagabonde que celle de notre esprit; de penetrer les profondeurs opaques de ses replis internes; de choisir et arreter tant de menus de ses agitations.
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Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.
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So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
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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 grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.