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Scholar Quotes by Clifford Geertz
- Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
- A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.
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- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some… — Alfred Austin
- In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us… — Jean Baudrillard
- Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand… — Felix Adler
- The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the… — Annie Besant
- Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many… — Dan Brown
- We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. — Robert Burton
- OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and… — Raymond Chandler
- And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
- The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people. — Geoffrey Chaucer