I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

— Dudley Field

“He's cute," I said. "Uh-huh," the grey man agreed, "and so's dynamite.”

— Dashiell Hammett

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

— Chinua Achebe

The learned man will not rest until he finds the one to learn more from.

— Mariana Fulger

A learned man has always riches in himself.

— Phaedrus

“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

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