Cautious Quote by Anonymous

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they…

— Jacob Bronowski

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I'm not trying to tell you," he said, "that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world...[however,] they…

— J.D. Salinger

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

— Samuel Richardson

Professors of literature, who for the most part are genteel but mediocre men, can make but a poor defense of their profession, and the…

— Yvor Winters

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.

— Emile Chartier

Among the multitude of scholars and authors, we feel no hallowing presence; we are sensible of a knack and skill rather than of inspiration;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

— Anonymous