18 Michel de Montaigne Quotes on Wisdom

Michel de Montaigne quotes on wisdom

1. Que sais-je?

3. Certes, c'est un subject merveilleusement vain, divers, et ondoyant, que l'homme. Il est malaise d'y fonder jugement constant et uniforme.

10. He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

15. We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

19. 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.

22. L'homme d'entendement n'a rien perdu, s'il a soimeme.

45. A man must be a little mad if he does not want to be even more stupid.

48. 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.

52. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

53. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

66. Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

71. Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

83. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

103. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

112. Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

119. 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.

134. 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.

138. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.