Scholar Quotes
426 Scholar quotes by 337 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.
— Rachel Caine
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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
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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
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Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.
— Nick Harkaway
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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
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A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.
— China Mieville
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
— Confucius
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……, 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
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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
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The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
— Stephen King
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It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar
— Christopher Paolini
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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
Who Wrote These Scholar Quotes
337 authors contributed a total of 426 Scholar Quotes, led by these top contributors: