A Quote by William Allen White

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

William Allen White

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William Allen White
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February 10, 1868 - January 29, 1944

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde

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

Frederick Douglass

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

John Ruskin

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Calvin Coolidge

I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person...as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.

Jack Dorsey

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

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

P. T. Barnum

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

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

Pauline Phillips

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

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

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Grenville Kleiser

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