Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. — Samuel Richardson
Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature. — Basmah bint Saud
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. — Carl Sandburg
I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate… — Compay Segundo
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. — Steven Seagal
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and… — Steven Spielberg
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. — Wallace Stevens
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. — Carter G. Woodson
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners. — Albert Camus
Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the scholar's art. — Wallace Stevens
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! — Friedrich Nietzsche
A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness. The syndrom especially… — Gregory Maguire
Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being. — Friedrich Nietzsche
During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against… — Max Brooks
An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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