Learned Men Quotes

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That they were all poor, weak, unlearned men.' The sort of men sometime called 'Puritans' in the English nation have been reproached with the same character. . . But when truth shall have liberty to speak, it will be known that Christianity never was more expressed unto the life than in the lives of the persons that have been thus reproached.

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.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.

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 most part are the more bold and peremptory.

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 and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

The benefit a father can confer on his son is to make him fit to occupy the front rank in the assembly of the learned.

A lot of learned men think people really are the food they've eaten.

This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.