Logo
Quote by Samuel Butler
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of know

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him. – Samuel Butler

Category:
God
Author
Samuel Butler
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. – James Northcote

Category:
Knowledge

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you cant practice to attain wisdom. – Herbie Hancock

Category:
Knowledge

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. – Charles Darwin

Category:
Knowledge

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. – Alexander the Great

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. – Leo Tolstoy

Category:
Truth

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasnt any Santa Claus, and hes still upset. – James G. Cozzens

Category:
Cynicism

Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge. – William Blake

Category:
Humanity

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. – Michel Foucault

Category:
Art