Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."
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Disadvantages
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Political Philosopher, Historian
"Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage."
Ovid
Poet
"A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]"
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors."
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"Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus confidently on her progress."
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