• To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  French author
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. excessively
2. pretension
3. without
4. knowing
5. speak

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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. by : Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

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