A Little Learning Is A Dangerous Thing

No One Really Knew The Sciences Except The Lord Robert, Bishop Of Lincoln, By Reason Of His Length Of Life And Experience, As Well As Of His Studiousness And Zeal. He Knew Mathematics And Perspective, And There Was Nothing Which He Was Unable To Know; And At The Same Time He Was Sufficiently Acquainted With Languages To Be Able To Understand The Saints And The Philosophers And The Wise Men Of Antiquity But His Knowledge Of Languages Was Not Such As To Enable Him To Effect Translations Until The Latter Portion Of His Life.

The Calendar Is Intolerable To All Wisdom, The Horror Of All Astronomy, And A Laughing Stock From A Mathematician's Point Of View.

The Conquest Of Learning Is Achieved Through The Knowledge Of Languages.

There Are In Fact Four Very Significant Stumbling Blocks In The Way Of Grasping The Truth, Which Hinder Every Man However Learned, And Scarcely Allow Anyone To Win A Clear Title To Wisdom, Namely, The Example Of Weak And Unworthy Authority, Longstanding Custom, The Feeling Of The Ignorant Crowd, And The Hiding Of Our Own Ignorance While Making A Display Of Our Apparent Knowledge.

To Ask The Proper Question Is Half Of Knowing.