Big words Quote by Benjamin Hoff

“Now one rather annoying thing about scholars is that they are always using big words that some of us can't understand and one sometimes…

— Benjamin Hoff

One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and…

— Benjamin Hoff

Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge. Once he thinks he knows, only then he becomes an ignorant.”

— Anonymous

Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that…

— Benjamin Hoff

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

— Emile Chartier

“The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We calmly, we carelessly assume…

— Aleister Crowley

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

— William Hazlitt

The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When all is said and done scholars can do no more than find in nature what is already there.”

— Eugène Delacroix

“When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire…

— Marianne Moore

“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”

— Cormac McCarthy