Top 100 Learned Man Quotes
#1. Is a man less of a man, because he's learned to hold his tongue?
Elizabeth Goudge
#2. Incontestably, the great centres of population in the primeval ages were the chalklands, and next to them those of limestone. The chalk first, for it furnished man with flints, and the limestone next when he had learned to barter.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#3. And then many things became very clear ... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Ernesto Che Guevara
#4. A man has the advantage of being delivered early from the home point of view, and before Selden left for college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it.
Edith Wharton
#5. A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.
Roger Ascham
#6. I felt guilty because I was upset by the loss of one friend when the Old Man had lost nearly everyone he loved. Loss, I soon learned from him, is not measured in numbers. It's not comparative. It's in here. I'm touching my chest now.
Michele Young-Stone
#7. It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.
Bernard Malamud
#8. For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death.
Hannah Arendt
#9. Still, I had a hunch about it, and if there's one thing I've learned in my long and stupid career as a man, it's the importance of listening to my hunches.
Paul Auster
#10. How did you tell a man that you'd grown up, that you'd learned true love wasn't a night of passionate sex under a sky lit up by fireworks, but an ordinary Sunday morning when your husband brought you a glass of water, two aspirins, and a heating pad for your cramps?
Kristin Hannah
#11. The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.
Laozi
#12. When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school
I went to school for a long time
I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis ...
Alice Mattison
#13. 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
#14. I was the world's smallest man, covered in freckles with a squeaky, scratchy voice. And I still am, but I've learned to love myself.
Charlie Day
#15. Man never learned a thing from talk'en, but he sure learned a lot when he listened.
George Herrman
#16. There is a master way with words that cannot be learned but instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper ...
Criss Jami
#17. There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one .
Horace Walpole
#18. The Bible, of course, for aside from religion there is much to be learned of men and their ways in the Bible. It is also a source of comments made of references and figures of speech. No man could consider himself educated without some knowledge of it.
Louis L'Amour
#19. As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, and I learned much from both of their styles.
Jimmy Buffett
#20. What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
Jessica Savitch
#21. Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Anzia Yezierska
#22. Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.
Dan Jenkins
#23. The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in an uncommon manner, is the man who has a power and influence that no adverse circumstances can take from him.
Booker T. Washington
#24. Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge
Cormac McCarthy
#25. [bookcover:Lessons Learned|13578440] Another shot, and for some reason, I'm the only one who can't move. Who can't scream. Who can't do anything but watch as the young man's body slumps over his tray. Finally, I find my voice and scream his name.
Sydney Logan
#26. I learned this from a show called Captain Video, featuring a man named, oddly, Captain Video,
Dave Barry
#27. The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#28. Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.
Louisa May Alcott
#29. In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover.
Joseph Stefano
#30. I didn't need a man, but if I wanted one I'd take him and use him and then pass him along without a second thought, because I'd become a sophisticated, modern woman if it killed me. Sure. And I would lose ten pounds and age backward, too. Right after I learned to fly my invisible jet.
Joanna Wylde
#31. We try to teach our students how to think ... how to use their brains and imagination. Individual subjects can always be learned by a man who knows how to learn. We teach them to think, and the other subjects arise by themselves ...
Ben Bova
#32. I learned very early in life that: 'Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend-without a song.' So I keep singing a song.
Elvis Presley
#33. Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered By reading of one book.
Jeremy Taylor
#34. Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.
Mark Nepo
#35. It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
Friedrich Schiller
#36. We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE
Sogyal Rinpoche
#37. Some things may be learned from words on a page, but some skills are learned first by a man's hands and heart, and later by his head.
Robin Hobb
#38. The Prophet said: Don't sit with every learned man. Sit with the learned man who calls towards five matters towards faith from doubt, sincerity from show, modesty from pride, love from enmity, and ascetism from worldliness.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#39. The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Chanakya
#40. He was the first military remote viewer - the first man to transcend time and space for the purpose of viewing selected targets and collecting intelligence information. I learned early to rely on his counsel. What he said was always true: no lies, no exaggerations, no betrayal, and no ego.
David Morehouse
#41. The learned man who does not act up to his knowledge is like a patient who describes the qualities of a medicine without using it or like a hungry man who describes the taste of a food without eating it.
Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali
#42. I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv.
Jess C. Scott
#43. You live and you learn, man. I've learned you can't wait on anybody. You have to raise your awareness yourself.
Big Sean
#44. Ho, you pretty man, turn aside hither and I will show you a brave place, and she lay at him so flatteringly that she had him in her grot which is named Two-in-the-Bush or, by some learned, Carnal Concupiscence.
James Joyce
#45. A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
Plato
#46. There were good and bad in every race, no matter the color of a man's skin. If Adam had learned anything in his life it was that the human soul held a great capacity for both good and evil.
Anonymous
#47. The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man.
Gregory Corso
#48. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.
Tony Robbins
#49. They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.
Wilbur Smith
#50. It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.
William Hazlitt
#51. There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more learned a man is, the less consideration he has for another man's belief.
Will Rogers
#52. The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.
Woodrow Wilson
#53. Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
Ricky Gervais
#54. Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Hesketh Pearson
#55. The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.
Giacomo Casanova
#56. I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
Nick Offerman
#57. As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade.
James A. Michener
#58. The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I'm left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can't quite remember.
George Carlin
#59. I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go.
John Mayer
#60. I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position. The shadows on the walls, on the faces, are not the same.
Elie Wiesel
#61. I thereby learned the invaluable lesson that in the practical activities of life no man can render the highest service unless he can act in combination with his fellows, which means a certain amount of give-and-take between him and them. Restraining
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#62. Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
Michel De Montaigne
#63. Have you learned nothing from me? There are other things to do with a man besides marry him."
He sighed heavily.
"Sometimes I think deep down inside you're a lesbian.
Marshall Thornton
#64. 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, but too often by rote.
William Hazlitt
#65. I learned that there are two young men lost in the woods. Not one. Two ... I may never find one of the young men ... He has been gone so long. The odds, I'm afraid may be against it. But as for the other, I may have better luck. The other young man may be calling me.
Wally Lamb
#66. 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, it's not because I'm brainy. It's simply because I have such a love for Paul that I have never left off reading him. He has taught me all I know.
Charles W. Freeman Jr.
#67. A man cannot possibly be at peace with others until he has learned to be at peace with himself.
Bertrand Russell
#69. What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?
Yoshida Shoin
#70. An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
Ogden Nash
#71. When a man has learned to live without money, he thought, a few rubles can go a long way.
Dan Millman
#72. Through trial, I've learned to be myself, and strive not to please man but to please God.
Susan Elliott
#73. Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
Archimedes
#74. No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
Henry Ward Beecher
#75. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
#76. Out of the motorcar (I learned later that this majestic vehicle was a Ford V8) stepped a short, thickset man wearing a smart suit.
Nelson Mandela
#77. There is no greater grief than that of a man with a broken heart who only just learned he had a heart at all.
Daniel Wallace
#78. One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
Henry David Thoreau
#79. I walked into the bathroom and stared at myself for a long time in the mirror, unable to see who was looking back at me-the girl broken and lost to a man she fell in love with or a woman who learned to survive with a broken heart. Maybe I was a little of both.
Nashoda Rose
#80. If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.
Neil Strauss
#81. The man who has never been disappointed has never understood happiness, the man who has never been anxious has never learned patience, the man who has never been depressed will never know ecstasy.
Palle Oswald
#82. I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
Abraham Lincoln
#83. You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
Chinua Achebe
#84. Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
Christina Aguilera
#85. This man will be hazardous for my heart if I allow it. He'll use me up if I let him. I know this without a doubt and remind myself of a lesson well learned not so long ago. Never confuse sex for love.
Georgia Cates
#86. All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
#87. For me, becoming a man had a lot to do with learning communication, and I learned about that by acting.
Adam Driver
#88. If you hold onto a man hoping someone else won't get them you have learned how to be desperate, not wise.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation.
Anonymous
#90. Here we come upon the old, old craze of the world, which has not yet learned to do without clericalism
that to live and work *for an idea*is man's calling, and according to the faithfulness its fulfilment his *human worth* is measured
Max Stirner
#91. He walked as he'd learned to walk, with only a minimal limp, back straight, head held high in confidence rather than cockiness. He walked like a man who had learned to lean into God for whatever strenth he needed.
Robin Lee Hatcher
#92. Personality in man is what is "not his own" ... what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of exterior impressions left in the memory.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#93. Settlers needed the land, and if the Indians hadn't learned by then that the white man's treaties were entirely worthless, Ridgeway said, they deserved what they got.
Colson Whitehead
#94. I'd also learned something new. There was something really sexy about a man that kissed you, without stopping to ask first.
Rose Wynters
#95. In the interview, Roger reflected how the German philosopher Nietzsche said a man can undergo torture if he knows the why of his life. But I, here at Dachau, learned something far greater. I learned to know the Who of my life. He was enough to sustain me then, and is enough to sustain me still
Ken Dignan
#96. The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
Dan Brown
#97. I don't want to know who he's been with or how many (women). I do want to know that my man is not a virgin, because I want to know that he knows what he's doing. But I don't need to know how he's learned it.
Dania Ramirez
#98. I'm not sure what's going to happen. Maybe we make it, maybe we don't, but if there's one thing I've learned, it's to appreciate the good when it happens. And having this man accept and want me the way I am right now is a good thing, and it's happening right this second. So I'm gonna enjoy it.
J.A. Huss
#99. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Impostor.
H.P. Lovecraft
#100. A learned man who doesn't restrain his passions is like a blind man holding a torch, he guides others but not himself.
Shaykh Sa Di
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