Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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

• I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Wind, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

• Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Christian, Simple, Men

• We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Understanding, Mind

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

• Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Understanding, Lost

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

• Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Understanding, May, Way

• He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Husband, Wife, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.117

• Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Christian, Believe, Mean

• [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

• Business in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, Children, Men

• Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Sight, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.176, 谷月社

• This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

  Michel de Montaigne

  Understanding, Asking, Skepticism

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