A Quote by Samuel Johnson

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

Samuel Johnson

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Angels Dangerous Dangerous Thing Fear Fools Knowledge Little Little Knowledge Only Rush Thing Tread

Quote Author

Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

Cary Grant

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Huxley

Angels light the way. Angels do not begrudge anyone anything, angels do not tear down, angels do not compete, angels do not constrict their hearts, angels do not fear. That's why they sing and that's how they fly. We, of course, are only angels in disguise.

Marianne Williamson

Angels rush in when fools are almost dead.

Rudolph Fisher

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Samuel Butler

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

The stairway is not a thing of gleaming strands a radiant evanescence for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not touch the stone.

Denise Levertov

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

Laurence J. Peter

For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Zhuangzi

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.