Sentence examples of "savant" in French with translation "learned"

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Le savant sait qu'il ignore. The learned man knows that there are things which he doesn't know.
Il passe pour un savant dans notre communauté. He passes for a learned man in our community.
Il passait pour un savant dans notre communauté. He passed for a learned man in our community.
Mon père est, pour ainsi dire, un idiot savant. My father is, so to speak, a learned fool.
C'est une de ces opinions si absurdes que seuls des hommes très savants pourraient l'adopter. This is one of those views which are so absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
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