All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.
Michel De MontaigneRead
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Engaging discussions require differing viewpoints to be interesting and meaningful.
Michel De Montaigne's quote suggests that true conversation thrives on diversity of thought and opinion. When everyone agrees, there is a lack of challenge and depth, leading to a dull exchange rather than an enriching dialogue that can stimulate ideas and foster understanding.
Themes
ConversationDisagreementEngagementDialogueOpinion
In practice
Example use cases
During a team meeting, you might cite this quote to encourage different perspectives on a project.
More from Michel De Montaigne
All quotes βAll I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.
Michel De MontaigneRead
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.
Michel De MontaigneRead
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
Michel De MontaigneRead
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
Michel De MontaigneRead
Such as are in immediate fear of a losing their estates, of banishment, or of slavery, live in perpetual anguish, and lose all appetite and repose; whereas such as are actually poor, slaves, or exiles, ofttimes live as merrily as other folk.
Michel De MontaigneRead
Similar quotes
A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.
Tim O'BrienRead
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood KrutchRead
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
Alexandre DumasRead
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni MorrisonRead
As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.
Wendell BerryRead
You've confused a war on your religion with not always getting everything you want.
Jon StewartRead