Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do…

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

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

— Baron de Montesquieu

“Another sign of the learned man of the hereafter is that he keeps himself distant from the ruling authorities and avoids their company, because…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

— James Northcote

Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.

— William Benton Clulow

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for…

— Edward Coke

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

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

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Colonel Sanders

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit…

— Francis Bacon