Scholar Quotes

426 Scholar quotes by 337 unique authors

Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of… — Larry Elder
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. — John Charles Polanyi
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually… — Samuel P. Huntington
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman
The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The word “art” is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to… — Amiri Baraka
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, — Thomas P. Campbell
More than any other contemporary British playwright, Tom Stoppard populates his plays -- from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to The Invention of Love (his… — Mel Gussow
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT… — Craig A. Evans
Pain teaches lessons no scholar can. — Kamahl
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and… — Charlie Campbell
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. — Ahad Ha'am
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have… — Winston Churchill
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided… — Charles Caleb Colton
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but… — A. E. Housman
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like… — Victoria Finlay
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why… — Alan Coren
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose… — Karl Marx

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