I love the intellectual type. They know everything and suspect nothing.
An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.
A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]
There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.
I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.
