Learned Man Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
— Thomas a Kempis
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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt…
— Khalil Gibran
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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.
— James Altucher
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A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
— Chanakya
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
— Anzia Yezierska
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A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
— Michel de Montaigne
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That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns…
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established…
— Frederic Farrar
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Whenever I hear the epistles of Paul read out loud in the liturgy, I am filled with joy... If I'm regarded as a learned man,…
— Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
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Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well,…
— William Hazlitt
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
— Victor Hugo
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It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.
— Kate Horsley
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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set…
— Virginia Woolf
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
— George Bernard Shaw
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A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon,…
— Stephen Crane
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A learned man has always riches in himself.
— Phaedrus
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A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.
— Siddha Nagarjuna
Who Wrote These Learned Man Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Learned Man Quotes as follows: