I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.


La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims (ed. 1903)

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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always...

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always...

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always...

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always...