Alexander Pope Quotes

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Whoever does not love knowledge, then there is no good in him.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.