Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 346 authors

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. — Leonard Cohen
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive. — Richard Hugo
A well-frog cannot imagine the ocean, nor can a summer insect conceive of ice. How then can a scholar understand the Tao? He is restricted… — Benjamin Hoff
I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not… — Albert Schweitzer
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. — John Millington Synge
Calculating people are contemptable. The reason for this is that calculation deals with loss and gain, and the loss and gain mind never stops. Death… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with… — Francis Maitland Balfour
A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. — Parker J. Palmer
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which he could never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It is… — Richard M. Nixon
A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate,… — Daniel H. Pink
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times,… — Larry Dossey
To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar — Samuel Johnson
If a rock, though extremely hard, can be hollowed out by water, how much more so should it be possible for The Light, which is… — Rabbi Akiva
I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not… — Sherman Alexie
The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is… — Charlotte Mason
Leadership in the church is not entrusted to successful fund raisers, brilliant biblical scholars, administrative geniuses, or spellbinding preachers...but to those who have been laid… — Brennan Manning

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