Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and… — Amos Oz
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion… — David Eddings
At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams… — Robin McKinley
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there… — Benjamin Hoff
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing… — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a… — Frank McCourt
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It… — Alan Watts
Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great… — Elie Wiesel
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of… — Merlin Stone
There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are… — Thornton Wilder
Hickory dickory dock my daddyâ€™s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A… — Dalton Trumbo
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know… — Brandon Sanderson
I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar. — Rachel Caine
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesnâ€™t like to watch television. Iâ€™m just the only one who confesses — Umberto Eco
Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting… — Brandon Sanderson

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