Scholar Quotes · Page 5

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

— Roman Jakobson

Better make friends with an ignoramus who is liberal with his money and of a pleasing disposition than with a scholar who…

— Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg

“I am a great scholar, my mind is full of wonders.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

— Peter Jennings

“You are a religious and a scholar; what the fuck?”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing…

— Anonymous

This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to…

— Werner Sollors

“The thought that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get…

— Israelmore Ayivor

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

— Norman Lamm

There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did,…

— Annie Dillard

There is nothing wrong with "women's studies" that studying the right women can't cure, but feminist literary scholars have a penchant for…

— Florence King

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

— Adi Shankara

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

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

— William Hazlitt

Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no…

— Leonard Shlain

I would love to see a debate on economics between Trump and Obama. Mr. 'Scholar,' Mr. Faculty Lounge Extraordinaire versus Mr. Real…

— Rush Limbaugh

I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder?

— Ferdinand Marcos

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

— Samuel Richardson

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the…

— Rob Bell

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

— Larry Hurtado

In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or…

— Bart D. Ehrman

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But…

— Cathleen Schine

[Kaz] is a great scholar, very funny - a true man of no rank!

— Joan Halifax