Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people… — John Podesta Copy Share Image
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize… — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function… — Robert K. G. Temple Copy Share Image
I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
While you are walking you would learn much more about filmmaking than if you were in a classroom. During your voyage you… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar.… — Jim Webb 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
At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method,… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . .… — Albert Schweitzer 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
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
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
Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible -… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will… — Confucius Copy Share Image
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like scholars over a bulldog's pedigree.” — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g.,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that… — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God the father, and even more often the devil himself, appears at times in the place of fate in the modern tragedy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
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