Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and…

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

— William Butler Yeats

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his…

— Mao Zedong

The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our author accustom…

— Alexander Pope

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.

— Alexander Pope

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

— Herman Wouk

“The search for knowledge demands foregoing the pleasures of companionship, but this is usually understood to mean frivolous and unprofi table human relations. Knowledge…

— Franz Rosenthal

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

— Anonymous

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

— Austin O'Malley

Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

— Bertolt Brecht

A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten.

— Colonel Sanders

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

— Democritus

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

— Anonymous

“A learned man said: The learned men are the lights of the ages. Each is a light in his own time giving light to…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

— Baron de Montesquieu