You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There is a Sufi trend, a madhabi Sufi trend, and I don't have any problem with this. What is not acceptable is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
God is not a 'being' removed from creation, ruling it from outside in the manner of a patriarchal ruler; God is the… — Rosemary Radford Ruether Copy Share Image
For 70 years there's been a consensus among scholars and the American people on a reading to the Constitution that protects the… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research… — Richard Willstatter Copy Share Image
In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
It's important for people in the Church to realize that the way they talk and think about the Bible isn't the way… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also,… — David Morrell Copy Share Image
Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'.… — Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi Copy Share Image
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Inexperience people think that books will lead the one of intellect to understanding. But the ignoramus doesn't know that in these books… — Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
Islam doesn't promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“don't be a scholar be a fool for love instead if you're the moon in the sky, fall down become the dirt… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
No scientist, engineer, writer, psychologist, artist, or physician - and certainly no scholar, and therefore no serious university faculty member - pursues… — Leon Botstein Copy Share Image
If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The… — Rabbi Akiva Copy Share Image
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is very hard not to see extensive and basic similarities between these (Pagan) religions and the Christian Religion. But somehow Christian… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
We really have to, as a country, recognize that school is where people get their identity not just as a scholar, or… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen… — Alexander Gardner Copy Share Image