We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open,… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains; he wants gossips. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in… — R. Alan Woods 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
Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results. — Hossein Malek-Afzali Copy Share Image
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
It is very hard to answer the oft-posed questions about how Abraham Lincoln would respond to some current condition. My favorite story… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of… — Robert W. Funk 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
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform… — Gordon Gee 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
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image