Learned Man Quotes

24 Learned Man quotes by 22 unique authors

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
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
A man of peace does more good than a very learned man. — Thomas a Kempis
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
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again. — James Altucher
A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere. — Chanakya
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. — Anzia Yezierska
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself. — Michel de Montaigne
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
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
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.
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
The learned man knows that he is ignorant. — Victor Hugo
It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas. — Kate Horsley
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
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. — George Bernard Shaw
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
A learned man has always riches in himself. — Phaedrus
A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: Either he abandons all earthly interests or else he possesses much which could be abandoned. — Unknown Author
The mistakes of the learned man are like a shipwreck which wrecks many others with it — Arabian Proverb
A learned man is not one who uses complicated and difficult words in spoken and written language, but one who uses words that are easily… — Vikrant Parsai
The learned man will not rest until he finds the one to learn more from. — Mariana Fulger
Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point out that there… — Virginia Woolf

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