The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was…

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from…

— Anton Chekhov

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the…

— Karl Popper

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

— Chinua Achebe

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated…

— Haruki Murakami

“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

“A bum woke up in the gutter right beside where I stood looking across the street at this place. He felt in the waist…

— Denis Johnson

If Athens shall appear great to you, consider then that her glories were purchased by valiant men, and by men who learned their duty.

— Pericles

“distance and found no smoke. We drank our coffee and ate fresh venison killed by Short Bull, and then we straddled our horses and…

— Louis L'Amour

“Did you teach him wisdom as well as valor, Ned! She wondered. Did you teach him how to Kneel! The grave yards of the…

— George R.R. Martin

“Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.”

— Chinua Achebe

Men have learned the secret of unity.

— Frederick Lenz

Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or…

— D. H. Lawrence

“What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.” —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher”

— Frank Viola

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

— Norman Thomas

“Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well.”

— Bernard Cornwell