"Half-learned" Quotes from Famous Books
... a dozen half-learned trades or occupations; he may grow rich and famous upon one trade thoroughly mastered, even though it ... — Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... a great proportion of the errors of medical practice. On it are based the delusions of the various shadowy systems which impose themselves on the ignorant and half-learned public as branches or "schools" of science. A remedy taken at the time of the ascent in the curve of health is found successful. The same remedy taken while the curve is in its downward movement ... — The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist) |