“A pen in a scholar's pocket is greater than a sword in a warrior's hand.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar… Yung No Mo — Dana Rosemary Scallon Copy Share Image
“Reading, writing, eating and sleeping; either makes you crazy or scholar.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“Without the willingness to study, how can you become a scholar?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Study the Bible like a soldier on a mission, not a scholar on a sabbatical. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people. — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
But, inevitably, as he [Kierkegaard] approaches what we might call his Christocentric climax many readers drop off. Many scholars just leave that… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Edward Schillebeeckx is probably as fine a New Testament scholar as I've ever read. He's a Dutchman. And he was harassed so… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One of the challenges in writing the script Call Me by Your Name was that I had to find something concrete for… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I’m frankly sick of all the books and movies trying to predict when Jesus will return and we’ll get to start our… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
That historian or scholar who delights in pointing out the weaknesses and frailties of present or past leaders destroys faith. A destroyer… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.” — Donald Foster Copy Share Image
Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. — Charles Studd Copy Share Image
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image