Business Quote by John Lancaster Spalding

What a man does not know is greater than he.

— Chinua Achebe

A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes…

— Confucius

If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty…

— Confucius

A gentleman can always be told by the way he speaks to those that he thinks are his inferiors in some respect. His equals…

— Fanny Jackson Coppin

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

— Lord Chesterfield

“If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”

— Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

— George Bernard Shaw

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of…

— George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

— Lord Chesterfield

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

— Laurence J. Peter

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

— Anonymous

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

— Haruki Murakami