Michel de Montaigne Opinion Quotations

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Opinion is a powerful party, bold, and without measure.

Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.

I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

In my opinion , every rich man is a miser.

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.

Thus we should beware of clinging to vulgar opinions, and judge things by reason's way, not by popular say.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me...

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists.

The good opinion of the vulgar is injurious.