Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield - Knowledge Quotes
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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 you not heard of such a thing? to answer, No, and to let them go on, though you know it already.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
