“He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint - and I've named 20 of them - the justices that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars… — John Silber Copy Share Image
Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
Frank Moore Cross is also a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, which he's been since they were discovered more than 50 years… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” — Confucius Copy Share Image
“No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.” — Donald Foster Copy Share Image
