All LORD CHESTERFIELD 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.”
“Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.”

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