Alexander Pope Quotes about Education

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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.

Alexander Pope

Education, Spring, Learning

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

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alexander Pope

Motivational, Education, Learning

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

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alexander Pope

Inspirational, Education, Time

Alexander Pope (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and Others. To which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.411

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