Michel de Montaigne
  • I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

  • We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

  • The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

  • I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.