Michel de Montaigne Quotes about Memories

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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

Memories, Wish, Criminal Mind

He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.

Michel de Montaigne

Honesty, Memories, Lying

Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 9, 1595.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Michel de Montaigne

Memories, Judgment, Excellent

Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

Michel de Montaigne

Memories, Confused, Self

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Michel de Montaigne

Strong, Memories, Judgment

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of history he will frequent those great souls of former years. If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.

Michel de Montaigne

Memories, Educational, Book

Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

Michel de Montaigne

Education, Memories, Understanding

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.333, Delphi Classics

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Michel de Montaigne

Memories, Please, Our Memories

Michel de Montaigne, Roger Ariew (1987). “Apology for Raymond Sebond”, p.56, Hackett Publishing

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Michel de Montaigne

Memories, Judgement, Excellent

"The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne".

[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Michel de Montaigne

Country, Strong, Memories

Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics