He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility. — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
