Alexander Pope Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Spring, Learning

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Motivational, Education, Learning

  Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1769). “Life comp. by Owen Ruffhead”, p.180

• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Money, Drinking

• Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

  Alexander Pope

  Powerful, Learning, Science

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.118

• Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Style, Strange

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.57

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Book, Learning, Ears

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.72

• Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Views, May

  Alexander Pope (1736). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.134

• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  Alexander Pope

  Birthday, Graduation, Education

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Learning, Science, Superficial Knowledge

• 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.

  Alexander Pope

  Pain, Learning, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.202

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