Lord Chesterfield Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Jewels, Curiosity

• Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Pockets, Watches

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.357

• Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Book, Reading, Learning

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Knowledge, People

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

• To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Giving, Credit

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.42, Oxford University Press

• Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Foundation, Remember

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.166

• Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Pride

  Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, December 14, 1756.

• A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Ignorance, Knowledge, People

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

• Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, Men, Shining

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.421

• Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Knowledge, World

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 4 October 1746

• Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Knowledge, Independence

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

• I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Education, Country, Latin

• There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Knowledge, May, Gains

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.71, Wildside Press LLC

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