A Quote by Michel de Montaigne
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
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Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
In the sphere of religion, as in other spheres, the things about which men are agreed are apt to be the things that are least worth holding; the really important things are the things about which men will fight.
Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Covetous men need money least, yet they most affect it; but prodigals, who need it most have the least regard for it.
I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.
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