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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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