Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

— Edward Teller

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

— James Patterson

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out…

— William Shenstone

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it…

— Neal Stephenson

The party that negotiates in haste is often at a disadvantage.

— Howard Raiffa

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their…

— Woodrow Wilson

A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.

— Terry Rossio

In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good…

— Booker T. Washington

Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.

— Alain Prost

It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception…

— John Constable

Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being…

— Noam Chomsky

If other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we will be at a disadvantage...we would look at considering perhaps duties that would…

— Steven Chu

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The disadvantage of working over networks is that you can't so easily go into someone else's office and rip their bloody heart out.

— Jim McDonald