Scholar Quotes

426 Scholar quotes by 337 unique authors

Well, Diotallevi and I are planning a reform in higher education. A School of Comparative Irrelevance, where useless or impossibe courses are given. The school's… — Umberto Eco
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are so many who know more than I do, who understand the world better than I do. I would be truly learned, a great… — Elie Wiesel
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of… — Merlin Stone
There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are… — Thornton Wilder
Hickory dickory dock my daddy’s nuts from shell shock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and burned out his eyes. A… — Dalton Trumbo
I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know… — Brandon Sanderson
I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar. — Rachel Caine
I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses — Umberto Eco
Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting… — Brandon Sanderson
Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe. — Nick Harkaway
You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends,… — Christopher Paolini
A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory. — China Mieville
What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart… — Jane Yolen
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek… — R C Sproul
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the world exists for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the… — Diana Gabaldon
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. — Confucius
……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes.… — Margaret Edson
Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the… — Parker J. Palmer
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research. — Stephen King
It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar — Christopher Paolini
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… — Adrienne Rich

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