6 Quotes by Michel de Montaigne about understanding
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I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.
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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
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This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"
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Their [the Skeptics'] way of speaking is: "I settle nothing. . . . I do not understand it. . . . Nothing seems true that may not seem false." Their sacramental word is . . . , which is to say, I suspend my judgment.
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We must not attach knowledge to the mind; we have to incorporate it there.
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