Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and… — George Santayana
Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand. — Herman Wouk
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the… — Charles Baudelaire
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose… — Joan Didion
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies… — Robert James Waller
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do… — Jacob Bronowski
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the… — Huston Smith
When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo,… — William C. Brown
Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects. — Big Pun
I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing. — William C. Brown
Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among… — William C. Brown
When you are a great scholar of stupidity, logics and marketing, you can do practically everthing, from business to trading, from spiritual research to artistic… — William C. Brown
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected.… — Leland Ryken
I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is… — Samuel Johnson
My school is attended by near three hundred scholars. — Joseph Lancaster
Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me… — Norman Lamm
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to… — George F. Kennan

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