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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (9027)	12/15/2010 11:47:46 PM
From: Oeconomicus	2 Recommendations Respond to of 10087

I think a little Alexander Pope might be fitting here: "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." - An Essay on Criticism, 1709 Or this one, by an anonymous author a few years earlier: "Twas well observed by my Lord Bacon, That a little knowledge is apt to puff up, and make men giddy, but a greater share of it will set them right, and bring them to low and humble thoughts of themselves." - 'A B' in The mystery of phanaticism, 1698. And finally, to Bacon himself for the apparent original, which is quite relevant to explaining our little-learned friend's anti-religion bent: "A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion." - Sir Francis Bacon, The Essays: Of Atheism, 1601. Hat tip to The Phrase Finder.