"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."
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) - "An Essay on Criticism"
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"Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it."
Publilius Syrus (First Century B.C.)
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"Therefore he seems to me a very foolish man, and truly wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear."
Alfred the Great, Blostman, (Nineth century A.D.)
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