A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” — Confucius Copy Share Image
I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. — Guido Calabresi Copy Share Image
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser,… — David McCord Copy Share Image
If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both… — Ralph P. Martin Copy Share Image
The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani,… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic"… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Scholars are the barrier that stands between the people and the manipulation of their minds by various impostors. When they become scarce,… — Mostafa al-Badawi Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.” — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
