English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Michel de Montaigne quote: "Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known."

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.

Michel de Montaigne

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Ben Shahn quote: "It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual..."
It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. Ben Shahn
I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do. Josh Duhamel
Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment. Garth Ennis
Hunter S. Thompson quote: "It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to..."
It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. Hunter S. Thompson
Phil Lesh quote: "When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience..."
When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'. Phil Lesh
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look. Flannery O'Connor
Billie Jean King quote: "Champions keep playing until they get it right."
Champions keep playing until they get it right. Billie Jean King
I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wantedmy life to close, and openlike a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the songwhere it fallsdown over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wantedto hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I wasalivefor a little while. Mary Oliver
Ellen Barkin quote: "My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook..."
My husband thinks he's compromising if we have one cook instead of three. Ellen Barkin
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. Samuel Beckett
Nicholas Sparks quote: "Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes..."
Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever. Nicholas Sparks
Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. David Frum
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. William Shakespeare
Anthony Burgess quote: "I was always on my oddy knocky."
I was always on my oddy knocky. Anthony Burgess
That anyone should need to write a book advising people to "eat food" could be taken as a measure of our alienation and confusion. Or we can choose to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that there is once again real food for us to eat. Michael Pollan