Quotes of: Learned-man Keyword

My dad taught me everything I know about being a man, and most of what I know about being a woman. The rest I had to learn from textbooks.

The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. Fr...

Walden Two

Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his l...

Rachel Carson

You have to learn the difference between a man’s looks, and how fine he shoots. They’ve never been one and the same.

The Carolinian

Any man, you'll soon learn, has an insurmountable need to blame someone else when he is made to look a fool.

The Duke and I

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

Education of a Wandering Man

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

House Harkonnen

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

Antigone

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

The Notebook

A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

The Seduction Of Elliot McBride

I learned how to pass when I was real young. That's one thing I always knew how to do was find the open man.

Kevin Durant

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Rebecca West

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Sai Baba

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can't go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

Kevin Bacon

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

P. T. Barnum

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela

Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, and his structure.

Richard LaGravenese

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

Nikolai Gogol

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Miguel de Cervantes

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Billy Graham