Scholar Quotes · Page 4

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

— William Godwin

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.

— Guido Calabresi

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

— John F. Kennedy

A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

— Publilius Syrus

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

— Duffy Daugherty

When you help scholars, you gain a share in their learning.

— Nachman of Breslov

Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles

— Fu Du

Many modern scholars have found the asceticism expressed in Plato unacceptable; it does not sound like the advice of a reasonable man…

— Thomas McEvilley

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I…

— Ahmad Jamal

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no one who is without faults, and who is not in some way a burden to others, whether he is…

— Robert Bellarmine

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said…

— Norman Lamm

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

— Richard Hugo

In the Marquette Lecture volume, I focus on the question in the title. I emphasize the social and political costs of being…

— Larry Hurtado

Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care…

— Katherine Anne Porter

I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more…

— Robert Cecil Martin

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old…

— Lady Gregory

When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan,…

— William C. Brown

Scholars have found that references to Christ in Josephus were deliberately planted in the translation long after it was written, and the…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of…

— Leo Strauss

A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting…

— Hugh Nibley

In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the…

— Victoria Finlay

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

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

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit…

— Guy Davenport

“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the…

— Peter B. Medawar

“The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work…

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal

A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.…

— Gregory Maguire

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

— Henry David Thoreau

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

— Dale Spender

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

— Anonymous

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

— Tamora Pierce

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

— Anonymous

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

— John Charles Polanyi

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

— Bernard of Clairvaux