Alexander Pope Quotes About Learning
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.
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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
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Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.
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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.
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No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing.
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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.
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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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