Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who… — Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg Copy Share Image
Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked,… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
If you want to be a Roman Catholic scholar and write, you've got to write in such a way that nobody understands… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter. — Edwin Boring Copy Share Image
Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results. — Hossein Malek-Afzali Copy Share Image
There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to… — Derek Kilmer Copy Share Image
Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense… — Otto E. Neugebauer Copy Share Image
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity. — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image