Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Wish, Criminal Mind

• Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Judgment, Excellent

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Memories, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

• He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

• A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Memories, Judgment

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

• In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Educational, Book

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

• The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Please, Our Memories

  Michel de Montaigne, Roger Ariew (1987). “Apology for Raymond Sebond”, p.56, Hackett Publishing

• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

• 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".

• Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Lying, Men

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Memories, Judgment

• [I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

• 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

• Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strength, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.23, Stanford University Press

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