A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I think Jewish history did away with a priesthood when the Temple was destroyed, and it became, supposedly, a religion of scholars.… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
College works on the factory model and is, in many ways, not suited to training entrepreneurs. You put in a student, and… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant… — Bhakti Charu Swami Copy Share Image
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
“Among the four things a noble person need not be ashamed of is serving a scholar in order to learn from him.… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The core belief that drives terrorism is the notion of a "holy place," along with the idea that some people belong there… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
For me, actually, being a bishop in a bishopric where there's an academic tradition gives me this fascinating, challenging, but open invitation… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel that the justices that I am going to appoint - and I've named 20 of them - the justices that… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Mama and I would go to a funeral and she'd stand up to read the dead person's eulogy. She made the ignorant… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.” — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
“The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.” — Confucius Copy Share Image
