Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and…

“What the person, who knows the truth, will speak, will not be understood by the person who does not know the truth.”

— Anonymous

You speak to be understood, right? And you're understood so you can be felt. And you're felt so you can get what you want.

— Jonathan Majors

The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

— Alice Hoffman

My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of…

— Joseph Campbell

In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in…

— Pope John Paul I

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

— Max Lucado

As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was…

— Lois Lowry

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured,…

— Donald Worster

As for journalism education, there are some terrifically exciting things going on in some schools. Others are struggling to adapt. Curriculum changes can be…

— Tom Rosenstiel

“The tunnel under the wall of intellectual snobbery is the only way back to common sense reality, but most won't find it because it…

— D.E. Navarro

It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At…

— John Steinbeck

Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with…

— Stephanie Coontz

Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel According to…

— Steve Stockman

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge…

— Max Stirner

Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly…

— Anonymous