Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I really detest those people who like to draw practical conclusions from scholarly truths, who 'apply learning to real life', like engineers… — Antal Szerb Copy Share Image
“The old scholar looked at the sturdy figure in its plain calico dress; at the worn hands, busy with their homely task;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Walter Isaacson attracts the best and the brightest to Aspen. It is exhilarating to listen to the likes of David Rubenstein and… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the… — Annie Besant 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
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about… — Alan Coren 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
Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
It is difficult for Iranian scholars and universities to retain their independence and to be seen as doing so, when cultural warfare… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
Since the uprisings in the Middle East many scholars have come out saying that freedom comes first before the Shariah. There is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer 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
“Oh, but I’m a scholar. I enjoy things with curious properties, and stupidity is most interesting. The more you study it, the… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by… — George Ellwanger Copy Share Image
Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with… — Grey Owl Copy Share Image
The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding from the Son meant the same… — Steven Runciman Copy Share Image
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered… — Howard Adelman Copy Share Image
A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
'Basic Black with Pearls' contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Note that scholars are judged mostly on how many times their work is referenced in other people's work and thus cliques are… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
It seems people don't read or listen. Our scholars and our media have been very outspoken. We were the first country in… — Adel al-Jubeir Copy Share Image
Whereas a man is entitled to marry three more times and that fosters great abuse, even scholars accept that. So certainly since… — Sadakat Kadri 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've gone to Yaddo many times, I've worked at the Rockefeller Foundation's Center for Scholars and Artists in Bellagio. That these are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, it is a fact that economics cannot remain an esoteric branch of knowledge accessible only to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
