The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah… — Umar Copy Share Image
I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that… — Compay Segundo Copy Share Image
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of… — Robert W. Funk Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
“... for you will never, I trust, disconnect what you may yourselves be learning from the hope and prospect of being enabled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The United States are such a large place. And there are some states and some cities where the questions of gender or… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
“Islam’s all about knowledge, right? Muslims know everything. We seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave. We seek knowledge even if… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the latitude one has as a scholar, critiquing certain approaches, is very different from being in the position… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.” — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image