Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory
As a scholar I am interested in the philosophy of language, semiotics, call it what you want, and one of the main features of the… — Umberto Eco
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels. — Umberto Eco
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and… — Joshua Foer
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. — William Hazlitt
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. — William Hazlitt
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of… — Jeffrey Kluger
To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any… — Hugh Laurie
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. — Maya Lin
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. — Thomas B. Macaulay
I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought… — Sun Myung Moon
As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey… — Camille Paglia
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. — William Penn
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. — Steven Pinker
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans… — Albert Pike
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. — Steven Pinker

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