Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 347 authors

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic. — Lord Chesterfield
The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible. — John Ruskin
The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by… — Thucydides
I'm an Einstein of the streets and an Oxford scholar of common sense. — Al McGuire
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time! — Rumi
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone… — Murray Rothbard
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition… — Benoit Mandelbrot
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? — Richard Courant
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement… — Richard Willstatter
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power… — Bill O'Reilly
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. — Duffy Daugherty
The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described… — Ernest L. Boyer
To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize and guess. — Paul Halmos
We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides… — Stanford Moore
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion,… — Grey Owl
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. — Dorothy L. Sayers
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne

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