Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Smart

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

• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Patience, Wisdom, Limits

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Agreement, Political

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Powerful, Emotional

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.840, Stanford University Press

• The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Moon, States

  "The Works of Michael de Montaigne".

• A man must become wise at his own expense.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

• Only the fools are certain and assured.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Fool, Certain

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.111, Stanford University Press

• If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of what the liar said to be certain. But the opposite of truth has a hundred thousand faces and an infinite field.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Honesty, Liars

• The only thing certain is nothing is certain.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

• A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Pieces

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.1327, Delphi Classics

• Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Wisdom, Excess

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays:”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

• A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Loss

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Essays, Of Solitude, 1922.

• Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Chance, Deliberation

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”

• Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Funny, Wise, Wisdom

• Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Sports, Wisdom, Children

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 23, 1595.

• Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Asceticism, Craving

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.185, Stanford University Press

• Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Two

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.449, Stanford University Press

• The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wise, Wisdom, Fashion

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.86, Stanford University Press

• We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Joy, Sorrow

• I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Gay, Behaviour

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.641, Stanford University Press

• Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably and well in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wisdom, Exercise, Numbers

  Michel de Montaigne (1894*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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