Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 346 authors

A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of… — George Ellwanger
A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . .… — Hugh Nibley
I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English… — Hunter S. Thompson
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has… — Edith Hall
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys… — Joyce Appleby
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps… — Norm Coleman
But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether… — Umberto Eco
A scholar knows no boredom. — Jean Paul
Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars, monks, or the… — Hermann Hesse
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education… — Stephen Covey
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central… — Robert Graves
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered them nonetheless, a… — Howard Adelman
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in… — Charles Horton Cooley
Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who was… — Leonard Shlain
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science,… — Carl Jung
Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars. — Rodney Stark
One sometimes gets the impression that those intimidating words are there to keep us from understanding. That way, the scholars can appear Superior, and will… — Benjamin Hoff
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
Each day is the scholar of yesterday. — Publilius Syrus
We know they have nothing to do with Islam because our politicians keep telling us that, and they are all Islamic scholars. (They are, aren't… — Pat Condell

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