Learned Men Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
— Tacitus
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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, "men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned"
— Al-Ghazali
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This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
— Bertrand Russell
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It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
— Austin O'Malley
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But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of other nations and…
— Philipp Melanchthon
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Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had…
— Ferdinand Columbus
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A lot of learned men think people really are the food theyve eaten.
— Colonel Sanders
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I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries…
— Democritus
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So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the…
— Edward Coke
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
— Democritus
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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 the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.
— Bertolt Brecht
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We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in…
— Karl Popper
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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
— Isabel Allende
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Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now…
— Charles Kingsley
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It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
— Tacitus
Who Wrote These Learned Men Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 Learned Men Quotes as follows: