Scholar Quotes
426 quotes by 347 authors
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.
— Robert Burton
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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
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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
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And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
— George Chapman
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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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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
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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
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Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.
— Charles Spurgeon
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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
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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
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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
— John F. Kennedy
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A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
— Daniel Dennett
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Scholar Quotes
347 authors contributed a total of 426 Scholar Quotes, led by these top contributors: