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Quotes About Learned

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
~ Seneca the Younger
Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
~ Alexander Pope
Coroners' inquests by learned societies can't make Shakespeare a dead man.
~ Ellen Terry
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I gave him a bored look. I had been threatened many times before and had learned that the men who didn't make verbal threats were the most dangerous.
~ Maria V. Snyder
[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.
~ Jim Jarmusch
My heart really softens when I think about mothering because the greatest lessons that I've learned in life have been as a mother.
~ Michele Bachmann
It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.
~ Zoltan Kodaly
I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that.
~ Bobby Vinton
Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
~ Pliny the Elder
One thing I've learnt about humans: you can't judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.
~ Dianna Hardy, The Last Dragon
In a time where everyone is searching for success, it's easy for other so called entrepreneurs to live off them because they haven't learned patience when it comes to money.
~ James Jean-Pierre
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
~ Immanuel Kant
A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.
~ Pope John XXIII
Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
~ Norman Thomas
A man of peace does more good than a very learned man.
~ Thomas a Kempis
We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I've Learned that The mind is so # Powerful , that if you focus on the Positive , it attracts the # Positive , Enabling you to heal emotionally and physically.
~ Petra Nemcova
You are learned in the Word of God--And if you know His Word, you know His Will.
~ Will Eisner
Underneath this sable hearseLies the subject of all verse:Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.Death, ere thou hast slain anotherFair and learned and good as she,Time shall throw a dart at thee.
~ William Browne
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may only study his commentators. ["On the Ignorance of the Learned"]
~ William Hazlitt
the most important truth I've learned across the whole of my life is that it's only when I yield to the river and embrace the journey that I find peace.
~ William Kent Krueger