Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
Interpretation
Superficial knowledge leads to arrogance and ignorance.
This quote highlights the danger of rushing through reading without contemplating or understanding the material. It warns that a quick, superficial grasp of information can lead to overconfidence and a false sense of expertise, ultimately resulting in pride without true knowledge.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of deep learning versus superficial understanding.
Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.
It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths" means "well-worn roads' or "wheel tracks," such ruts as wagons make when they go down our green roads in wet weather and sink in up to the axles. God's ways are at times like heavy wagon tracks that cut deep into our souls, yet all of them are merciful.
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.
It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.
If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
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