Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

The wise speak only of what they know

And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Intelligence is not a science.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Words are the money of fools.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.