Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 347 authors

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their… — Confucius
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
The relationship between officers and men should in no sense be that of superior and inferior, nor that of master and servant, but rather that… — John A. Lejeune
Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance. — Umar
When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt. — Umar
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and… — Evelyn Waugh
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
One of my greatest sources of pride as president of the New York Public Library is the continuance of the library's open, free, and democratic… — Vartan Gregorian
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life… — Samuel Johnson
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo — Dana Rosemary Scallon
Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated. — Albert Einstein
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large… — Werner Sollors
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated… — Randall Balmer
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is… — Steven Berkoff
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop… — Toni Morrison

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