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
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
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
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 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
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 am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that… — Compay Segundo 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
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
“Pierre Bourdieu once noted that, if the academic field is a game in which scholars strive for dominance, then you know you… — Anonymous 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
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
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
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
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
Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints:… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani,… — Husain Haqqani Copy Share Image
“Scholars are the barrier that stands between the people and the manipulation of their minds by various impostors. When they become scarce,… — Mostafa al-Badawi Copy Share Image
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“Allah, Most High, has truly blessed us. He has created just for us the mysterious spirit that He has breathed into us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as… — Nora Waln Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“After debating with a religious scholar you leave the room but suddenly you are pushed and about to hit the ground. If… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“God’s love is earned by a man through being a scholar and at the same time behaving as inconspicuously and modestly as… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“underneath the report about a shortage of scientists was another which said that a professor of acoustics at Salford University has proved… — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt.… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when… — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
It's this patronizing thing that people have about if you're against the war, everyone's lumped together. You know, the soldiers are not… — Richard Belzer Copy Share Image
I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have… — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is there is significant debate among judicial scholars today as to whether or not we've gone off… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“The difference between the one who remembers Allah and the one who doesn’t is like the living and the dead.” — Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf Copy Share Image
