Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Wisdom
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Que sais-je?
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Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.
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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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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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L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soimeme.
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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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For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
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Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
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Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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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.