A Quote by Bob Edwards

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

Bob Edwards

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Bob Edwards
American - Journalist
Born: May 16, 1947

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Terry Pratchett

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

Pauline Phillips

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Terry Pratchett

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

Frederick Douglass

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

Charles Dickens

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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.

George Bernard Shaw

A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.

Roger Bacon

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing.

P. T. Barnum

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.

Criss Jami

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

William Allen White

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

Alexander Pope

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

Mark Twain

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

Ambrose Bierce

Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one thing to excess; they know nothing else. Pursuing facts too doggedly and unimaginatively, they miss all the charming things that are not facts. ... Too much learning, like too little learning, is an unpleasant and dangerous thing.

H. L. Mencken

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