An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

— Seneca the Younger

Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.

— Anonymous

“A man who would give advice without understanding is a fool.”

— J. Kyle McNeal

“The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

“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

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

— Chanakya

A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has…

— Virginia Woolf

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

— Anonymous

The learned man's life itself shines as the message for mankind.

— Sai Baba

“The Prophet said: Don't sit with every learned man. Sit with the learned man who calls towards five matters towards faith from doubt, sincerity…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

“Simon, she'd learned, was a man who studied people. He learned their weaknesses as a way of protecting himself.”

— MacKenzie Taylor

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

— Michel de Montaigne

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully…

— Anonymous

“I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others is also making it for himself.”

— Chinua Achebe

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset