Choices Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

A Scholar can nourish millions of people

— Asif Z Warsi

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

Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice,…

— Noam Chomsky

Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward]…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— William Hazlitt

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences…

— Joseph Stiglitz

“extreme specialization prevents scholars from developing a perspective.”

— Stefan Klein

“Two intellectual consequences of literacy were the separation of history from myth and the increased individualism based on highly specialized knowledge. In literate cultures,…

— Wendy Griswold

“Scholars make things very easy for themselves. They stick a couple of old potsherds together, search for one or two adjacent cultures, stick a…

— Erich von Däniken

“Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the…

— Bertrand Russell