Michel de Montaigne on Mind
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne, catalogued under mind, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne and filed under "mind" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #56649: "Non pudeat dicere, quod non pudet sentire: "Let no man be ashamed to speak what he is not ashamed to think."
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #146964: "When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
7 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne on Mind
"Non pudeat dicere, quod non pudet sentire: "Let no man be ashamed to speak what he is not ashamed to think."
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
"Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to."
"To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen."