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Biography - Michel de Montaigne:

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is a French Renaissance writer and philosopher.
Born: 1533 - Died: 1592
Period:
16th century
Place of birth: France
France

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.


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French
Toute autre science est dommageable à celui qui n'a pas la science de la bonté.

German
Jedes andere Wissen schadet dem, der kein Wissen vom Guten hat.




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Great thoughts come from the heart.

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Intelligence has value only in the service of love.




Quotes for: science


Quotes

Quotes about science:


The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.





A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.





Of all the human sciences, the science of man is the most worthy.











Quotes for: knowledge


Quotes

Quotes for: knowledge


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;





The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.











Quotes

Michel de Montaigne also said...


I think my opinions are good and sound, but who does not think the same of his own?





When someone opposes me, he arouses my attention, not my anger. I go to greet a man who contradicts me, who instructs me.





The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.





The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





There are certain things that we hide in order to reveal them.





My trade and art is to live.












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