Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 347 authors

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no… — John James Audubon
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. — Alfred Austin
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of… — Jean Baudrillard
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target… — Felix Adler
The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and… — Annie Besant
Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his… — Dan Brown
We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. — Robert Burton
OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you… — Raymond Chandler
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. — Geoffrey Chaucer
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees. — Charles Spurgeon
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint… — J. William Fulbright
With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in… — J. William Fulbright
Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars. — John F. Kennedy
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. — Daniel Dennett
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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