Quotes by Chesterfield, Lord

The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cy >>

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. >>

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than wit >>

Quotations about Knowledge

A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, re >>

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. >>

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. >>

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

Chesterfield, Lord