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
We have all been given a gift with 'The Big Bang Theory,' a show that's not only based in the scientific community,… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said,… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe. — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite,… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
I have nothing but great respect for great scholars. But I was in grad school in the '80s and '90s, at the… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“With these meager scraps of Latin and the like, you may perhaps be taken for a scholar, which is honorable and profitable… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help… — Robert Graves 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
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
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