Joseph Conrad on Knowledge
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Joseph Conrad, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Joseph Conrad, entry #88213: "As to honour — you know — it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
Attributed to Joseph Conrad, entry #159901: "There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."
3 Quotes by Joseph Conrad on Knowledge
"As to honour — you know — it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
"There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind."
"His name was Jermyn, and he dodged all day long about the galley drying his handkerchief before the stove. Apparently he never slept. He was a dismal man, with a perpetual tear sparkling at the end of his nose, who either had been in trouble, or was in trouble, or expected to be in trouble — couldn't be happy unless something went wrong. He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways. I dare say he was right. It seems to me I knew very little then, and I know not much more now; but I cherish a hate for that Jermyn to this day."