Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Judgement

Quotes about: Judgement

• Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Morning, Philosophy, Educational

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Judgement, Excellent

  "The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne".

• All general judgments are loose and imperfect

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Imperfect, Judgment

• Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Can Do

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Soul, Vices

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 14 [References are to M. Rat's edition of the 'Essais' (1958) which, in accordance with the Strowski and Gebelin text (1906-33), conflates the 1580 edition of books 1 and 2, the revised and enlarged 1588 edition of all three books, and later manuscript additions published posthumously]

• Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Friendship, Hatred, Judgement

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.823, Stanford University Press

• In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Father, Judgement, News

  Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.100, Stanford University Press

• There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Way, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Confused, Self

• The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judgement, Lightning, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.171, Stanford University Press

• A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Volunteer, Judgement, Risk

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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