Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
"Thinking for Oneself" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/essays/chapter8.html <br class="br">Essays
“Montaigne speaks of an “Abecedarian” ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. The first is the ignorance of those who, not knowing their A-B-C’s, cannot read at all. The second is the ignorance of those who have misread many books. They are, as Alexander Pope rightly calls them, “bookful blockheads, ignorantly read.” There have always been literate ignoramuses, who have read too widely, and not well. The Greeks had a name for such a mixture of learning and folly which might be applied to the bookish but poorly read of all ages. They are all “sophomores.””
— Mortimer J. Adler, book How to Read a Book
Source: How to Read a Book (1940, 1972), p. 11
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Montaigne speaks of an “Abecedarian” ignorance that precedes knowledge, and a doctoral ignorance that comes after it. T…" by Mortimer J. Adler?
Mortimer J. Adler31
American philosopher and educator 1902–2001Related quotes
“Those who don't read good books have no advantage over those who can't.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
“The best books are those, which those who read them believe they themselves could have written.”
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
The Art of Persuasion
“Beware
Those Who
Are ALWAYS
READING
BOOKS”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Source: A Sincere Admonition to All Christians to Guard Against Insurrection and Rebellion (1522), p. 65
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
“It is the semi-learned who scorn the ignorant; the learned know too much about them for that.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 92
“I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.”
Nathaniel Tarn (1928) American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator
Poem Last of the Chiefs published in: Nathaniel Tarn (1965) Old savage, young city. p. 18.