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61. “There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.”

Michel de Montaigne

Life, Wisdom, Knowledge, Living Well, Human Nature

62. “The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Wisdom, Humility, Self-awareness, Philosophy

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

Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom, Learning, Individuality, Knowledge, Personal Growth

64. “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, Corruption, Wisdom, Human Nature, Metaphor

65. “Men of simple understanding, little inquisitive and little instructed, make good Christians.”

Michel de Montaigne

Religion, Simplicity, Faith, Knowledge, Human Nature

66. “Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.”

Michel de Montaigne

Intelligence, Self-awareness, Knowledge, Wisdom, Human Nature

67. “Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Deception, Learning, Critique, Metaphor

68. “I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.”

Michel de Montaigne

Self-study, Introspection, Philosophy, Knowledge, Human Nature

69. “The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Ignorance, Religion, Belief, Human Nature

70. “There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Curiosity, Human Nature, Learning, Wisdom

71. “We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.”

Michel de Montaigne

Interpretation, Knowledge, Philosophy, Human Nature, Wisdom

72. “We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge.”

Michel de Montaigne

Truth, Inquiry, Knowledge, Human Nature, Divinity

73. “We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Learning, Understanding, Education, Wisdom

74. “Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.”

Michel de Montaigne

Miracles, Nature, Ignorance, Knowledge, Perception

75. “The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up.”

Michel de Montaigne

Reading, Learning, Action, Knowledge, Critique

76. “Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.”

Michel de Montaigne

Judgment, Knowledge, Wisdom, Human Nature, Intellect

77. “Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

Michel de Montaigne

Belief, Knowledge, Human Nature, Psychology, Ignorance

78. “The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.”

Michel de Montaigne

History, Perspective, Authority, Writing, Knowledge

79. “Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, has a conception of Pyrrhonism.”

Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance, Judgment, Philosophy, Skepticism, Knowledge

80. “Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.”

Michel de Montaigne

Philosophy, Wonder, Inquiry, Ignorance, Knowledge

81. “In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”

Michel de Montaigne

Cats, Knowledge, Mystery, Human-animal Relationship, Perception

82. “Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.”

Michel de Montaigne

Ignorance, Comfort, Knowledge, Human Nature, Irony

83. “As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”

Michel de Montaigne

Medicine, Chance, Knowledge, Skepticism, Human Nature

84. “The only thing certain is nothing is certain.”

Michel de Montaigne

Uncertainty, Philosophy, Knowledge, Skepticism, Human Condition

85. “Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.”

Michel de Montaigne

Reason, Senses, Knowledge, Philosophy, Uncertainty

86. “He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind.”

Michel de Montaigne

Perspective, Knowledge, Experience, Nature, Human Perception

87. “I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.”

Michel de Montaigne

Reading, Knowledge, Learning, Memory, Individuality

88. “I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.”

Michel de Montaigne

Skepticism, Judgment, Examination, Philosophy, Knowledge

89. “Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.”

Michel de Montaigne

Education, Wisdom, Ability, Knowledge, Human Development

90. “I would have every man write what he knows and no more.”

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge, Writing, Honesty, Wisdom, Self-awareness

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