Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes

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.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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• 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.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • Pride
  • Ignorance