Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. — Moliere Copy Share Image
“The Giles' edition of the ART OF WAR, as stated above, was a scholarly work.” — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
As a scholarly discipline, economics has always suffered from physics envy. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians. — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people take a scholarly approach where they feel like you're supposed to study things that depress you. — John Currin Copy Share Image
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end. — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
I would be remiss if I left the impression that my life has been totally preoccupied with scholarly research. — Douglass North Copy Share Image
There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions. — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
There is no single truth, but each of the scholarly disciplines has methods which lead one ever closer to the truth. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
As a scholar, you don't want to repeat yourself, ever. You're supposed to say it once, publish it, and then it's published,… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
I had an interest in health policy and a realization that, as an academic physician, one of the things you're always looking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The desire to have meaning and messages in a neutral way, independent of religious commitments, corrupts scholarly work on the Bible, because… — Vern Poythress Copy Share Image
A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious,… — Margaret Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached.… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
As a teacher I approach my students purely with the human desire to free them from all scholarly inhibitions, and I tell… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people's uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only… — M. Carey Thomas Copy Share Image
A Machine to Make a Future is an insightful and creative contribution to the literature--both scholarly and journalistic--on contemporary genomics. By 'experimenting'… — Nadia Abu El Haj Copy Share Image
It is a thoughtless and immodest presumption to learn anything about art from philosophy. Some do begin as if they hoped to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. It was not an easy task. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.” — Hans Küng Copy Share Image
Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Many times I heard Imam Ahmad saying (when asked to give his opinion) on controversial scholarly issues 'I do not know.' — Abu Dawood Copy Share Image
I do, however, feel reasonably strongly the sense that the job of a piece of argumentative scholarly non-fiction is not the same… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image