Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.
The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important. " This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned
Sure as the most certain sure. . . . plumb in the uprights, well entreated, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery we stand. Clear and sweet is my soul. . . . and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul, Lack one lacks both. . . . and the unseen is proved by the seen Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn. To elaborate is no avail. . . . Learned and unlearned feel that it is so.
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.
The learned are said to have seeing eyes; The unlearned have only two sores on their faces.
There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.
Natural selection deals ruthlessly with any population, bird or beaver, which fails to solve the problems of its environment with all those resources, learned or unlearned, which may be at its disposal.
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.
The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.
A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants of the founding fathers. . . . when the blood of the sons of immigrants and the grandsons of slaves fell on foreign fields, it was American blood. In it you could not read the ethnic particulars of the soldier who died next to you. He was an American. And when I think of how we learned this lesson, I wonder [how] we could have unlearned it.
How can we give if there is nothing there?. . . Support and understanding cannot come from the emotionally starved. Teaching cannot come from the unlearned. And most important of all, spiritual guidance cannot come from the spiritually weak.
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.
