Quote by Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been

Summary

This quote, often attributed to Michel de Montaigne, expresses a preference for the company of peasants over educated individuals. The quote suggests that peasants, due to their lack of formal education, are less likely to engage in flawed reasoning. It implies that education can sometimes lead to incorrect reasoning or complicated thinking, while the simplicity and straightforwardness of peasants' perspectives can be refreshing. The quote may highlight the value in unpretentiousness and the potential dangers of overthinking or intellectualization.

Topics

Education

By Michel de Montaigne

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

Future

A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes

A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

William Shenstone

Criticism

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can d

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a r

But with friendship, there's nothing like that. Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.

Friendship

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the mos

I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.

Romantic

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

Beauty

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Thomas Jefferson

Imagination

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corpora

I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

Freedom

I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities t

I have beheld no day since the commencement of hostilities that I have thought her liberties in such eminent danger as at present. Friends and foes seem now to combine to pull down the goodly fabric as we have hitherto been raising at the expence of so much time, blood, and treasure; and unless the bodies politick will exert themselves to bring things back to first principles, correct abuses, and punish our internal foes, inevitable ruin must follow.

George Washington

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Heaven Intelligence Hell Stupidity Paradise

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappin

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Justice

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were m

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

Life Music Love Heart And So It Goes