There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. — Guido Calabresi Copy Share Image
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman Copy Share Image
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You can't understand the first thing about God unless you love Him. These big so - called Vedic scholars - they don't… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For hundreds of years the use of the word 'man' has troubled critical scholars, careful translators, and lawyers. Difficulties occur whenever and… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art… — Abe Ajay Copy Share Image
Some international relations scholars would posit that interest in zombies is an indirect attempt to get a cognitive grip on what U.S.… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of… — Robert W. Funk Copy Share Image
Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter if it's jazz or not. It's about how we listen, how we interact, how we guide our attention when… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books;… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching… — Shomei Tomatsu Copy Share Image
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image