Learning Quotes by Lord Chesterfield

13 Learning quotes by Lord Chesterfield

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Lord Chesterfield’s thirteen sayings blend social polish with practical advice, framing learning as a tool for both personal refinement and worldly success.

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When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

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Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

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Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.

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The heart has such an influence over the understanding, that it is worth while to engage it in our interest.

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Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of…

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The manner of your speaking is full as important as the matter, as more people have ears to be tickled than understandings…

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One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one…

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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

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Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge…

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Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are…

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I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,…

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A man of the best parts and greatest learning, if he does not know the world by his own experience and observation,…

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A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly…

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No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed…

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I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

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Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the…

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Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where…

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