Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Wisdom
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Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.
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A man must become wise at his own expense.
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
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Wisdom has its excesses, and has no less need of moderation than folly.
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The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
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We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
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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.
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Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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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.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
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I love a gay and sociable wisdom, and shun harshness and austerity in behaviour, holding every surly countenance suspect.
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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
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Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.
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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!
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Only the fools are certain and assured.
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We should spread joy, but, as far as we can, repress sorrow.
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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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