A Quote by P. T. Barnum

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

P. T. Barnum

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P. T. Barnum
American - Entertainer
July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891

Advertising is like learning - a little is a dangerous thing. If a man has not the pluck to keep on advertising, all the money he has already spent is lost.

P. T. Barnum

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

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

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

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

Roger Bacon

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

Bob Edwards

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

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

Pauline Phillips

Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.

Stephen Covey

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

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. I must say that Rush Limbaugh is increasingly becoming a warning to kids of the perils of dropping out of school.

Arianna Huffington

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

Stephen Covey

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