A Quote by Tom Sharpe

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

Tom Sharpe

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Dangerous Dangerous Thing Knowledge Lethal Little Little Knowledge Lot Thing

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Tom Sharpe
English - Novelist
March 30, 1928 - June 6, 2013

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Albert Einstein

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

Samuel Butler

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

Terry Pratchett

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

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 knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

Erik Naggum

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Darren Shan

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

Samuel Johnson

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.

Leonard J. V. Compagno

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

Zhuangzi

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

Bob Edwards

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.