Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

• We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Sweet, Diversity

  Michel de Montaigne (1963). “Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings”

• There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Two, Hair, Justice

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.922, Xist Publishing

• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Taken, Learning, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.110, Stanford University Press

• In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Teacher, Children, Educational

• Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Diversity, Bears

  Essais bk. 3, ch. 2 (1580)

• Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Diversity, Uniforms

  Essais bk. 1, ch. 1 (1580)

• Those who make a practice of comparing human actions are never so perplexed as when they try to see them as a whole and in the same light; for they commonly contradict each other so strangely that it seems impossible that they have come from the same shop.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Light, Practice, Diversity

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.239, Stanford University Press

• Each person calls barbarism whatever is not his or her own practice.... We may call Cannibals barbarians, in respect to the rulesof reason, but not in respect to ourselves, who surpass them in every kind of barbarity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Practice, Diversity, May

• The most universal quality is diversity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Diversity, Quality, Universal

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.656

• The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Diversity, Opinion, Argument

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.868

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