The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt. — Umar Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham… — Patrick Bamford Copy Share Image
“Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“As a scholar, it was her job to see things in relationship to other things; the only thing she couldn't see in… — E.J. Levy Copy Share Image
Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Scholars sometimes use technical terms (i.e., Hypostases) for no good reason, other than the fact that they are the technical terms scholars… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools… — William Penn Copy Share Image
There are a significant number of learned men and women who hold that any successful effort to make ideas lively, intelligible and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Voting rights expert and legal scholar Pam Karlan reports that as of 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
Without an integrated understanding of life, our individual and collective problems will only deepen and extend. The purpose of education isn't to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There's really educated women out there who are feminists and they have read up on their stuff. They can talk to me… — Lizzo Copy Share Image
A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
“To live and to dream, to study and share her thoughts, to ponder the words of great men...To be a man, to… — Susanna Calkins Copy Share Image
There is the case of Henry Kissinger who was a known scholar who later became the National Security Advisor to President Nixon… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better,… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using big words that some of us can't understand and… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance. — Umar Copy Share Image
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One day some as yet unborn scholar will recognize in the clock the machine that has tamed the wilds. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories. — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
