Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I… — Ahmad Jamal Copy Share Image
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
After realizing a principle, unless you learn it with your body you cannot expect to get true understanding. Scholars in particular tend… — Koichi Tohei Copy Share Image
“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Have you read Belondweg?" "I coudn't call myself much of a scholar if I hadn't," he said. He was adorable and he… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Back in the day, a lot of our instructors in nonfiction were actually fiction scholars. So they would bring in stories as… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
The Ph.D. system was designed for a job in academics. And it works really well if you really want to be an… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
It's interesting to see the lament of each generation overwhelmed by the next new tool. I can show you passages from scholars… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and… — Umar Copy Share Image
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using big words that some of us can't understand and… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of all the many memoirs by former Soviet officials, Palazchenko's is among the best written and also the most objective. Even his… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Research is an expression of faith in the possibility of progress. The drive that leads scholars to study a topic has to… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When you're a scholar at the academy of a professional club everything is quite nice and easy. Then suddenly you're up against… — Dominic Calvert-Lewin Copy Share Image
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it.… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name.… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Every day, the sun; and, after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows. Every day, men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched… — Daniel Pipes Copy Share Image
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books… — Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī Copy Share Image