Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become… — Michael Shermer
Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and made the most… — Charlton Laird
Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics who get a funny look… — William Shakespeare
Why, a spirit is such a little, little thing, that I have heard man, who was a great scholar, say that he'll dance ye a… — Joseph Addison
Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets… — Henry Austin Dobson
The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is… — Thomas Merton
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to… — Anthony de Mello
It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,… — John Taylor Gatto
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of… — Larry Elder
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. — John Charles Polanyi
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually… — Samuel P. Huntington
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but thatâ€™s not true at all. — David Stockman
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The word â€œartâ€ is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to… — Amiri Baraka

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