Half Knowledge Quotes

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

It is better to be ignorant than to half know something.

With just enough of learning to misquote.

Rule of art: let half-blind purpose lead you.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

You can do a lot of damage if you try to answer a question part-way.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.