I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the… — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a… — Patrick F. McManus Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Copy Share Image
From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself...… — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex.… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah… — Umar Copy Share Image
The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
This is really an opportunity to mobilize a new generation of scholars and pastors not just to equip the saints but also… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“Scholars don't have blood flowing in their veins," said Hamlet. "When they're wounded, they bleed logic, and when all of it is… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians… — Mel Gibson Copy Share Image
