Michel de Montaigne Quotes

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

I once read that people who study others are wise but those who study themselves are enlightened.

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

He who knows himself is enlightened.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

Sometimes it might seem like I'm using my songs to give other people pointers. But mainly, they're for me, just little notes to myself that I collected, and the wisdom that I've read. I give myself a lot of advice.