We need but little learning to live happily.

He knows everything but he lacks inexperience.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

como por ver que es más el número de los simples que de los prudentes; y que, puesto que es mejor ser loado de los pocos sabios que burlado de los muchos necios, no quiero sujetarme al confuso juicio del desvanecido vulgo, a quien por la mayor parte toca leer semejantes libros.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time — none, zero

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

y el buen gobernante en América no es el que sabe cómo se gobierna el alemán o el francés, sino el que sabe con qué elementos está hecho su país,

It is astonishing with how little reading a doctor can practice medicine, but is not astonishing how badly he may do it.

Les gens de qualité savent tout, sans avoir jamais rien appris.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.