It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing. — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. — Levon Helm Copy Share Image
“He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I'm going to be criticized by lots of "scholars," but I think Shakespeare's best comedy often appears in his tragedies, actually. Not… — Chukwudi Iwuji Copy Share Image
“Scholars who are worth anything at all never know what is call "a hard grind" or what "bitter study" means.” — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Have you read Belondweg?" "I coudn't call myself much of a scholar if I hadn't," he said. He was adorable and he… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
The crowning evidence that he lives is not a vacant grave, but a spirit-filled fellowship. Not a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no… — Leonard Shlain Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Copy Share Image
From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the… — C. V. Raman Copy Share Image
Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I focus on faculty, as opposed to facilities, budgets, endowments or students. I do so because I believe, based on many decades… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Complaisance, though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues, is that which gives a lustre to every… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe Copy Share Image
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen Copy Share Image
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
