Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 346 authors

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is,… — Nathan M. Pusey
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who… — Reza Aslan
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars. — Thomas Jefferson
It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films… — Terry Pratchett
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure… — Margaret Caroline Anderson
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. — Publilius Syrus
If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good… — Hakim ibn Hizam
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes… — Blaise Cendrars
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile… — Walter Pater
My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. — Iain Banks
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude.… — Bill Viola
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles — Du Fu
For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately and effectively defend… — Lee Strobel
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz

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