Michel de Montaigne: The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best.
The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best.
- Also quoted as
- Also quoted as “We should not ask who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.”
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- The philosophy became a RULE. The rule became a PRACTICE. The practice became a HABIT FORCE. The Habit Force produced a RESULT.
- Children rarely become what fathers say. They become what fathers consistently demonstrate.
- What you do first, reveals what is first in your heart.
- You can be efficient in doing things right without a good reputation, but you cannot be effective in doing the right things without great character.
- For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name or to supply the want of it.