A little learning is a dangerous thing

Cultural  

1. People who know only a little do not understand how little they know and are therefore prone to error. First said by Alexander Pope.

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Example Sentences

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep; or taste not the Pierian spring.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Shaw, Bernard

A little learning is a dangerous thing because it knows all and consequently it stands in the way of learning more or much.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage is more so; the three Miss Browns appointed all the old maids, and carefully excluded the young ones. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow drafts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various

But as Pope says,— A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett