Quotes of: Learned-man Keyword

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

Christopher Morley

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

Anzia Yezierska

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

Yelawolf

It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.

Daughter of the Forest

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.

The Elric Saga Part I

Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like.

The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac

To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the il...

No Man Is an Island

These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was th...

Anthem

It is ignorance that is at times incomprehensible to the wise; for instance, he may not see 'the positive person' or 'the negative person' in such a black and white way as many people do. A wise man may not understand it because, as a catalyst of wis...

Killosophy

We understand why it is better to teach a starving man to fish, but a repertoire course is worse than handing a a fish to a starving man. Our students are not starving; if anything, they are drowning in a sea of information. So a survey course is mor...

Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning

You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a gr...

Listen, Little Man!

Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

The Lost Symbol

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Kate Horsley

Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.

Bobby Brown

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

Lane Garrison

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

Frank Moore Colby