Michel de Montaigne Judgment Quotations

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

Whoever will imagine a perpetual confession of ignorance, a judgment without leaning or inclination, on any occasion whatever, hasa conception of Pyrrhonism.

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.