Here is the complete quote from which cmlover extracted his partial quote.
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) in An Essay on Criticism, 1709:
"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."
cmlover:
Where can one find the Castallian Spring? I have been looking all my life, in vain, for one.
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Your quote from Essay in criticism is correct. But it is also part of a verse by Pope (I forget where0 which goes as:
"A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing
Drink deep or taste not the Castallian spring"
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castalian_Spring
which is the appropriate Fountain and perhaps Pope corrected himself later!
Anyway the purpose of my quote is to indicate that Sanskrit language is an ocean and we are only like the blindmen searching the elephant trying to get an understanding.
Your quote from Essay in criticism is correct. But it is also part of a verse by Pope (I forget where0 which goes as:
"A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing
Drink deep or taste not the Castallian spring"
Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castalian_Spring
which is the appropriate Fountain and perhaps Pope corrected himself later!
Anyway the purpose of my quote is to indicate that Sanskrit language is an ocean and we are only like the blindmen searching the elephant trying to get an understanding.