knowledge Quotes

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.