Scholar Quotes

“You are a religious and a scholar; what the fuck?”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

— Andre Gide

“Is it not the true scholar the only true master?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Oh, he was quite a scholar, Mr. Taxovich.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I was never going to be a scholar.

— Philip Green

Free should be the scholar - free and brave.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

— Peter Jennings

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

— Anonymous

All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

— Thiruvalluvar

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

— William Zinsser

A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

— China Mieville

A scholar without diligence is a lover without money.

— Muslih-uddin Sadi

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

— Big Pun

A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

“You may make a writer or a scholar of him, but you'll not make anything else. You may make up your mind…

— C.S. Lewis

My love of books - not just of their tactile pleasures but of their astonishing variety - was born in a book-filled…

— Julia Glass

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

— J. Michael Straczynski

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and…

— Rob Bell

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to…

— Anonymous

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of…

— Max Weber

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top…

— Norm Coleman

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than…

— Albert Einstein

“Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and up amusing way. They provide a lot of information.…

— Benjamin Hoff

……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between…

— Margaret Edson

Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.…

— Larry Dossey

If scientists and scholars were to become "collectively self-organised and consciously activist" today, they would probably devote themselves to service to state…

— Noam Chomsky

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They…

— Robert Burchfield

In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her…

— Henry Austin Dobson

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the…

— William O. Douglas

You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how…

— Joseph Campbell

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience…

— Robert Graves

Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant…

— Henry Louis Gates

Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out…

— Dalton Trumbo

“A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.…

— Randall Balmer

You ought not to accept the claim that this is a religious practice. I think that's, frankly, problematic for Islam, for well-intentioned…

— Jason Kenney