Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Quote by Baltasar Gracian
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Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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Baltasar Gracian Quotes
- Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
- He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
- Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
- Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
- A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
- When desire dies, fear is born.
- Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
- Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
- Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
- Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
Best Quotes
- Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
- The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years.
- Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
- Junk food drags you down.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
- The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
- Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
- An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Sleeping, we image what awake we wish; Dogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.