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Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.

Michel de Montaigne
Men, Sight, Understanding
Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.176, 谷月社

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Michel de Montaigne
Eye, Wind, Understanding
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

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

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Michel de Montaigne
Husband, Wife, Understanding
Michel de Montaigne, Charles Cotton (1711). “Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,”, p.117

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Michel de Montaigne
Understanding, Mind
"Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 25, 1595.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Michel de Montaigne
Understanding, Asking, Skepticism

Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.

Michel de Montaigne
Understanding, May, Way

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