Learned People Quotes

Some of the most learned of the people were chosen to make known the lives of those lords in songs.

Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

All the learn'd are cowards by profession.

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it.

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

The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.

Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge.

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion.

The learned are seldom pretty fellows, and in many cases their appearance tends to discourage a love of study in the young.