Rake Quote by Anonymous

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to…

— Lord Chesterfield

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame…

— Christine de Pizan

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over a period of years he collected thousands of discples. Many became his students. Many didn't become his students but whenever he was in…

— Frederick Lenz

“Academics being no less nomadic than Congregational preachers, he took work where he could find it. He became a Professor of Greek and Latin…

— Neal Stephenson

“His education had been neither scientific nor classical—merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and…

— C.S. Lewis

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Actually my father kept hinting to me the problem of getting good grades himself: the person who was at the exact bottom of his…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“A man may possess a profound knowledge of history and mathematics; he may be an authority in psychology, biology, or astronomy; he may know…

— David O. McKay

“A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.”

— Barbara Sher

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

— Iris Murdoch

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

— Aesop