Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Stupidity

Quotes about: Stupidity

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Stubborn, Opinion

• Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupidity, Serious, Ass

• One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Silly, Want

• Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Suffering, Resolution

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.547, Delphi Classics

• Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupid, Stupidity, Harm

• A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Stupidity, Littles, Guilty

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt, Orlando Williams Wight (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising his essays, journey into Italy, and letters”, p.311

• Is it reasonable that even the arts should take advantage of and profit by our natural stupidity and feebleness of mind?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Stupidity, Mind

• To say less of yourself than is true is stupidity, not modesty. To pay yourself less than you are worth is cowardice and pusillanimity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Stupidity, Pay

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.274, Stanford University Press

• In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Stupidity, Quality

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.319, Stanford University Press

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