Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself. — William Godwin
Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and… — Cyrano de Bergerac
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. — Levon Helm
Exegetical commentaries on the books of the Bible come in all shapes and sizes. Harold Hoehner's new volume on Ephesians has both a distinctive shape… — Ralph P. Martin
Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path forward to a… — Maude Barlow
I don't want to base my life on a symbol, he said resolutely. I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in… — Gregory A. Boyd
Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should… — Nancy Kassebaum
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar! — Moliere
Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning. — Henry David Thoreau
I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Education in our family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre ... In this family of accomplished scholars, I was to become the… — Steven Chu
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. — William Hazlitt
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr.
Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it. — Publilius Syrus
The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. — Samuel Johnson

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