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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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