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«A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
calamity
«Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity.»
«As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Learning,
Travel
| Keywords:
appreciate, culture, doorstep, doorsteps, lovingly, scrutinize, scrutinized, scrutinizing, sharpen, sharpened, sharpening, steadily, Their culture, The Traveler, traveler, wiser
«A barber learns to shave by shaving fools»
Author: Romanian Proverb
| About:
Foolishness,
Learning
| Keywords:
barber, barbered, Barbers, shave, shaving
«An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.»
Author: Russell Baker
(Columnist, Journalist)
| About:
Education,
Learning
| Keywords:
Almost always, at best, dead person, fictitious, incomplete, mendacious, mislead, misleading
«A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal»
«Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.»
«A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.»
«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»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
draughts, drinking, intoxicate, intoxicates, intoxicating, largely, Pierian, Pierian Spring, shallow, sobers, The Brain
«As the old cock crows the young cock learns»
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