Michel de Montaigne on Wisdom
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne, catalogued under wisdom, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Michel de Montaigne and filed under "wisdom" 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 #123815: "I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance."
Attributed to Michel de Montaigne, entry #158138: "She requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, 11 … or internal difficulties."
10 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne on Wisdom
"I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance."
"She requires a rough and stormy passage; she will have either outward difficulties to wrestle with, 11 … or internal difficulties."
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."
"We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can"
"A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself."
"The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate."
"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."
"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."