Wisdom Quote by Michel de Montaigne — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.”

“There is nothing more notable in”

“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”

“Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bestes, tesmoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté.”

“Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.”

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”

“Sure, we'd faced some things as children that a lot of kids don't. Sure, Justin had qualified for his Junior de Sade Badge in his teaching methods for dealing with pain. We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.”

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.”

“To the wise, peace of mind is the result of being fine with how things are; to the foolish, the result of things being fine.”

“Tell no man anything, for no man listens”

“Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.”

“The science of decision-making is to make sure there is an effective decision process in place.”