A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret. — Pandita Ramabai Copy Share Image
I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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
BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to… — Oliver Bowden Copy Share Image
You ought not to accept the claim that this is a religious practice. I think that's, frankly, problematic for Islam, for well-intentioned… — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“What a scholar one might be if one knew well only some half a dozen books.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
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