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.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.215^8.

   I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

-Raleigh, Sir Walter
  The History of theWorld.

   Sempre que os homens sabidos lhe diziam palavras dif|¤ceis, ele sa|¤a logrado. Sobressaltava-se escutando-as. Evidentemente so¤   serviam para encobrir ladroeiras. Mas eram bonitas. Whenever men with book learning used big words in dealing with him, he came out the loser. It startled him just to hear those words.Obviously they were just a cover for robbery. But they sounded nice.

-Ramos, Graciliano
  Vidas secas (translated as Barren Lives,1965),'Contas'.

French truth,Dutch prowess,British policy, Hibernian learning, Scotch civility, Spaniards'dispatch,Danes' wit, are mainly seen in thee.

-Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of
c.1673  'Upon Nothing', stanza16 (published1679).

   The people will live on. The learning and blundering will live on. They will be tricked and sold and again sold And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

-Sandburg, Carl
  The People,Yes.

Ihave justcausetomakea pitiful defence of poor poetry, which from almost the highest estimation of learning is 790

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
English  writer.  An  aeronautical  engineer,  he  began  to  write novels in1926 and afterWorldWar II emigrated to Australia, the setting  for  most  of  his  later  books,  notably  A  Town  Like Alice (1949) and On the Beach (1957).

Of such deep learning little had he need, Ne yet of Latin, ne of Greek that breed Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From when arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies.

-Spenser, Edmund
Prosopopoia, l.385^9.

The process of learning is accompanied by alternations of pain and brief quickenings that resemble pain.

-Wilder,Thornton Niven
  The Eighth Day.

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning doat, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

-Young, Edward
  The Love of Fame, the Universal Passion'Satire1'.