Learned Person quotes
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"An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong."
"A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words."
"It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching."
". . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often."
"This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid."
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"A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead."