All LORD CHESTERFIELD Quotes about “Ignorance”

“Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.”
“Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.”
“The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.”
“Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.”

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