Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You scholars, you're in communication with the devil. — Alexandre Dumas
But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a… — Benjamin Hoff
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge… — Tom Stoppard
Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and… — Rob Bell
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen. — Blaise Pascal
A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be… — Hermann Hesse
When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong. — Tamora Pierce
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the… — John Steinbeck
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. — Jonathan Swift
In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by… — Leah Hager Cohen
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily. — Alan Watts
I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which… — William Shakespeare
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread;… — Pablo Neruda
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all… — Washington Irving
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has… — C.S. Lewis
Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but… — Frank Beddor

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