Book Learned

Just because we have educated our younger people does not make them wiser, just more book-learned. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I know the heathen, and their oppressors, pretty well, you see, and the folly of sitting smug in judgment years after, stuffed with piety and ignorance and book-learned bias. ❋ Estelle Bruno (2010)

I'm not book-learned enough to say with historic certainty that America pioneered the use of the minor-celebrity endorsement. ❋ Dave Hurteau (2008)

As she grew, which she did rapidly, she became smart in the way that beautiful young rich girls often are, book-learned but naïve. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of these men, Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins), happens to be an emotionally remote billionaire with a vast store of book-learned knowledge -- such as how to make a compass out of a leaf and a paper clip, and how to make fire out of ice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The transformation of sentiment into self-seeking, ordinarily slow, tortuous, and veiled by hypocrisy in better educated people, was swift and direct in the old “bear,” who demonstrated the superiority of shrewd tipple-ography over book-learned typography. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The objection that I have to book-learned Spanish is that the present tense is invariably taught first. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third ❋ Unknown (2006)

I do not talk it well: but as I am not an Italian, and little more than book-learned in it (for it is a long time ago since I lost my grandfather, who used to converse with me in it, and in French) I was not scrupulous to answer in it. ❋ Unknown (2006)