One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“As a scholar, it was her job to see things in relationship to other things; the only thing she couldn't see in… — E.J. Levy Copy Share Image
“Scholars sometimes use technical terms (i.e., Hypostases) for no good reason, other than the fact that they are the technical terms scholars… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that he will donate $45 billion of his wealth to philanthropy. Two years ago, my husband and I… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“Allah, Most High, has truly blessed us. He has created just for us the mysterious spirit that He has breathed into us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“After debating with a religious scholar you leave the room but suddenly you are pushed and about to hit the ground. If… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work… — Santiago Ramón y Cajal Copy Share Image
I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham… — Patrick Bamford Copy Share Image
Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qur’an to support their views… — Umar Copy Share Image
“The greatest scholar alive hasn't more than four thousand different words at his command, and he never has occasion to use half… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but… — Ahad Ha'am Copy Share Image
when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
