Alexander Pope Quotes about Understanding
Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). “An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.48
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.
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
