Michel de Montaigne Quotes

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.

It is in our power to educate all the children of the world to become a little better as people, a little happier.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? Those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

The student learns rules but all the rules in the world never make a picture.

What [Donald] Trump is essentially saying is what has always been the case: America is the solution to the problems of the world. But to [Barack] Obama and Hillary [Clinton] and many on the left, America's the problem. America and its superpower status is the problem in the world.

The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop

The best contraceptive in the world is a good education.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Reading liberates you. You could know about the world through reading.

You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver lost.

I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

I saw what could be done with words, for I had a vision of a new world as I talked.

The world's become a little too mean.