Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
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
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
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
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures,… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker,… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“Many are the scholars who make it their professional occupation to occupy themselves in this towering edifice of culture, exploring its nook… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“My specialty is cultural anthropology,” the Professor said. “I gave up being a scholar some time ago, but I’m still permeated with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The scholar who knowingly speaks, writes, or teaches falsehood, who knowingly supports lies and deceptions, not only violates organic principles. He also,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
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