I think the level of casualties is secondary... [A]ll the great scholars who have studied American character have come to the conclusion… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Without dignity our lives are only blinks of duration. But if we manage to lead a good life well, we create something… — Ronald Dworkin Copy Share Image
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense… — Nathan M. Pusey Copy Share Image
During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
Interestingly, modern science has estimated that the age of the earth is about 4 billion years. Scholars feel it is uncanny that… — Subhash Kak Copy Share Image
The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful… — Robert V. Remini Copy Share Image
I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention… — Mel Gussow Copy Share Image
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker,… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
I do think that I have been fortunate to make friendships with other scholars, and form reading groups where ideas are exchanged… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
(H)er qualifications for the Supreme Court are non-existent. She is not a brilliant jurist, indeed, has never been a judge. She is… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all… — Leah Hager Cohen Copy Share Image
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
[Silvio] Gesell's chiefwork is written in cool and scientific terms, although it is run through by a more passionate and charged devotion… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures,… — Erich von Däniken Copy Share Image
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to… — Werner Sollors Copy Share Image
Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Wine has been with us since the beginning of civilization. It is the temperate, civilized, sacred, romantic mealtime beverage recommended in the… — Robert Mondavi Copy Share Image
Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
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![“Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must…” quote by Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/359/stephen-jay-gould-885_birthright_good-scholars-struggle-to-understand-the_2471854.jpg)
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