Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Stubborn, Opinion

• The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Exercise, Mind, Opinion

• The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Men, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.360, Stanford University Press

• Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Opinion

• 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

• It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Alive, Opinion

• Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Riches, Opinion, Glory

• In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.

  Michel de Montaigne

  War, Book, Exercise

  "The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne".

• Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Judging, Way, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.150, Stanford University Press

• We should be similarly wary of accepting common opinions; we should judge them by the ways of reason not by popular vote.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Popular Vote, Judging, Political

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

• A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Gratitude, Hurt, Men

• The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Miracle, Extravagance

• There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Way, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.786, Stanford University Press

• The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Opinion, Cognitive Therapy

  Michel de Montaigne (1811). “The Essays of Michael de Montaigne”, p.308

• Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Mirrors, Views

  "The Necessity for Ruins, and Other Topics". Book by John Brinckerhoff Jackson, p. 4, 1980.

• It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Order, Lust, Opinion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.312, Stanford University Press

• When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sight, Opinion

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

• All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Looks, Opinion, Ought

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

• I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Opinion, Be Good

• Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Truth, Taken

  Michel de Montaigne (1603). “Essayes”

• In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Lying, Opinion

• No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Change, Men, Two

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Opinion, Enough, Force

  Michel de Montaigne, Bayle St. John (1866). “Essays [tr. by Cotton”, p.358

• Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Humble

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.855, Stanford University Press

• Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice; for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason than the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Men, Practice

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

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