Learned

Famous quotes containing the word learned:

“But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

“Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

“With respect to wit, I learned that there was not much difference between the half and the whole.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)