learned quotes

Learned men†do many times fail to observe decency and discretion in their behaviour and carriage, so as the vulgar sort of capacities do make a judgment of them in greater matters by that which they find them wanting in smaller. 46

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 4:11.

I am always of the opinionwith the learned, if they speak first.

-Congreve,William
  Incognita.

  Entrepreneurship can be learned, but it can't be taught, so schools are not much good.

-Drucker, Peter Ferdinand
  Interviewed in'Adam Smith'  The Roaring'80s (1988), ch.2.

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 5.

Il y a toujours un moment o  u' la curiosite¤   devient un pe¤  che¤  , et le diable s'est toujours mis du co"  te¤   des savants. There is always a moment when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always on the side of the learned.

-Thibault
  Le Jardin d'Epicure.

Nemo secure pr×cipit, nisi qui bene obedire didicit. Nobody rulessafely, but he who has learned well how to obey.

-Kempis, StThomas a'
c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.1, ch.20, section 2.

But one thing we learned: there is no glory in the deed Until the soldier wears a badge of tarnished braid.

-Read, Sir Herbert Edward
  'To a Conscript of1940'.

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.

-Stein, Gertrude
Of Ernest Hemingway. Quoted in R Mellow Charmed Circle (1974), ch.16.

For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing often-times The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man.

-Wordsworth,William
  'Lines composed a few miles aboveTintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of theWye', l.88^99.

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