A little learning is a dangerous thing

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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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A little learning is a dangerous thing

A better poet than Boileau, and at least as good a scholar as Mr. de Sévigné, has said, "A little learning is a dangerous thing."

From Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

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

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Shaw, Bernard

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 Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Marden, Orison Swett

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

Pope says, very truly, in his "Essay on Criticism":— A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

From Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of