Michel de Montaigne Judgement Quotations

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.

The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.