Shallow Knowledge Quotes

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.

The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.