Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, earnestly carry it into practice.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?” — René Thom Copy Share Image
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. — Confucius Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's… — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“I hope that you two young scholars may never lack superiors who are less intelligent than you; it is the best cure… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The most intriguing people you will encounter in this life are the people who had insights about you, that you didn't know… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions… — Alcee Hastings Copy Share Image
As for pupils, I can have as many as I choose, but I do not choose to take many. I intend to… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that… — Donald E. Graham Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is… — John Drane Copy Share Image
My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Scholars and enlightened always want to define the differences between communism, socialism, fascism and other economic or political systems. It really doesn't… — Jake Danishevsky 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
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
“At the end of time, there will be scholars who will not practice what they preach. They will preach abstention from this… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Al-Askarî gives examples of the high esteem shown to scholars and the important position in society they occupy, often in spite of… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“In the entire works of the Jewish historian Josephus (37-c. 100 CE), which constitute hundreds of pages, there are only two paragraphs… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
“Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Lastly, and doubtless always, but particularly at the end of the last century, certain scholars considered that since the appearances on our… — Jean Baptiste Perrin Copy Share Image
“Stylish scholars, my colleagues told me, express complex ideas clearly and precisely; produce elegant, carefully crafted sentences; convey a sense of energy,… — Helen Sword Copy Share Image
