Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, — Thomas P. Campbell
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his… — Mel Gussow
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT… — Craig A. Evans
Pain teaches lessons no scholar can. — Kamahl
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and… — Charlie Campbell
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. — Ahad Ha'am
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have… — Winston Churchill
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided… — Charles Caleb Colton
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but… — A. E. Housman
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: â€˜like the China rose, like… — Victoria Finlay
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why… — Alan Coren
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose… — Karl Marx
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… — Stephen Leacock
I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all. — Sylvia Plath
When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page. — George Steiner
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all… — John Kenneth Galbraith
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars… — Henry Louis Gates

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