Scholar Quotes

426 Scholar quotes by 337 unique authors

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life… — Samuel Johnson
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo — Unknown Author
Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated. — Albert Einstein
This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large… — Unknown Author
Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. — Werner Herzog
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated… — Unknown Author
An extraordinary and controversial interpretation of Shakespeare's origins, which certainly provokes much thought. A radical analysis of Shakespeare's text, leading to a conclusion which is… — Steven Berkoff
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop… — Toni Morrison
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is,… — Nathan M. Pusey
Well, to be clear, I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who… — Reza Aslan
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars. — Thomas Jefferson
It's either because of the number of times the scholar puts the boot into Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings films… — Terry Pratchett
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure… — Margaret Caroline Anderson
I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to… — Benjamin Rush
A pleasant traveling companion on a journey is as good as a carriage. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. — Publilius Syrus
If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good… — Unknown Author
Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The role of the scholar is to destroy chimeras, that of the statesman is to make use of them. — Gustave Le Bon
Science is history arranged according to the superstition and taste of the moment. The vocabulary of scholars has no wit, no salt. These heavy tomes… — Blaise Cendrars
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile… — Walter Pater
My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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