The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should. They should.” — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open,… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Of course. I was on the run from evil spirits that wanted to kill me and now, according to the local paper,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
They are born, put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I have a German friend who works on memorialization. The last generation of Nazis and Holocaust survivors are now dying. So literally,… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S.… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex.… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
I focus on faculty, as opposed to facilities, budgets, endowments or students. I do so because I believe, based on many decades… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
“Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for… — Florence King Copy Share Image
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
