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Alexander Pope1 quote
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. — Alexander Pope · 1711Haile Selassie I1 quote
Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction. — Haile Selassie I · 1963Henry Adams1 quote
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. — Henry Adams · 1907Henry David Thoreau1 quote
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. — Henry David Thoreau · 1850John Dryden1 quote
By education most have been misled. — John Dryden · 1687Oscar Wilde1 quote
The mind of the thoroughly well informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. — Oscar Wilde · 1890