Scholar Quotes · Page 8

The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them.

— Gustave Le Bon

“We live in a world where a cunt has more fans than a scholar.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

— Publilius Syrus

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

— Peter Thiel

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

— John Charles Polanyi

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.

— Basmah bint Saud

Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is…

— Plato

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.

— John of Salisbury

The Pew Biomedical Scholars are a synergistic community whose connections are reinforced over the years.

— Craig Mello

Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

“Men of culture should make scholarship more practical and less academic, and if they do so, they will in fact be working…

— Frederico Rochaferreira

“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using Big Words that some of us can't understand ...…

— Benjamin Hoff

I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white…

— Vine Deloria Jr

The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked,…

— Anthony de Mello

Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion.…

— John Shelby Spong

The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can…

— Horace Mann

Shakespeare, who never could think up a plot by himself, found this one [Macbeth] in Holinshed's Chronicles, changing it just enough so…

— Richard Armour

“Give me a scholar, therefore, who is able to think and to write, to look with an eye of discernment into things,…

— Lucian of Samosata

You ought not to accept the claim that this is a religious practice. I think that's, frankly, problematic for Islam, for well-intentioned…

— Jason Kenney

This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly…

— Lesslie Newbigin

I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them…

— Winston Churchill

Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing…

— David E. Cooper

“These bits of paper are covered with lies. They poison your minds. And so long as they exist, you cannot hope to…

— Oliver Bowden

The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant,…

— John A. Lejeune

We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars.…

— Pat Condell

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.

— Tamora Pierce

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

— Anonymous

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

— Steven Pinker

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

— Anonymous

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

— Confucius

Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros

— Stuart Briscoe