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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel de Montaigne
Communication, Knowledge, Brain
Essays Bk 1 (transl. D. M. Frame)

The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.

Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge, Self, Behavior

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Dream, Knowledge

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Michel de Montaigne
Life, Art, Knowledge
Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge, Drug, Decay
Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.339, Delphi Classics

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge, Men, Libertarian
Michel de Montaigne, Marvin Lowenthal (1999). “The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions”, p.195, David R. Godine Publisher

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Michel de Montaigne
Change, Knowledge, Example
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.

Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge, Ideas, Pairs
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

Michel de Montaigne
God, Knowledge, Secret

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