Scholar Quotes

426 quotes by 337 authors

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they… — Fareed Zakaria
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character… — Steven Pinker
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or… — Harold Bloom
Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of… — Deepak Chopra
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more,… — Trevor Nunn
The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau
I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want… — John Podesta
Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom… — Donald Kennedy
Religions, of course, have their own demanding intellectual traditions, as Jesuits and Talmudic scholars might attest.... But, in its less rigorous, popular forms, religion is… — Wendy Kaminer
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom
He who is only an athlete is too crude, too vulgar, too much a savage. He who is a scholar only is too soft, to… — Plato
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. — John of Salisbury
In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In all of the history of mankind there has never been a time when we have had a greater opportunity to increase our knowledge of… — L. Tom Perry
Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the… — Albert Camus
This is an extraordinary book of unique psychological power. It reveals not only scholarship and sophistication of the author, but deep and intimate knowledge of… — Stanislav Grof

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