Top 15 Philip Dormer Stanhope Quotes

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools.

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.

Ridicule is the best test of truth.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in they year, if you will do two things at a time.