Scholar Quotes

426 Scholar quotes by 337 unique authors

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy. — Iain Banks
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude.… — Bill Viola
Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam with smiles — Du Fu
For me, apologetics proved to be the turning point of my life and eternity. I'm thankful for the scholars who so passionately and effectively defend… — Lee Strobel
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz
A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear. — Clifford Geertz
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. — Confucius
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. — Emile Chartier
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty… — Milton Friedman
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs… — Jeane Kirkpatrick
I think that ultimately we will attain much more depth of understanding of Scripture when we are able to study it in the company of… — Wayne Grudem
The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
In fact,I believe the reason why the Chinese failed to develop botany and zoology is that the Chinese scholar cannot stare coldly and unemotionally at… — Lin Yutang
All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past. — Peter Thiel
I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. — Ahmad Jamal
Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary. — Patrick F. McManus
The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious. — Julius Evola
The Koran is a not 'a product of Muhammad or even of Arabia,' but a collection of earlier Judeo-Christian liturgical materials stitched together to meet… — Daniel Pipes
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar. — Theodor Mommsen
At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after… — Carl Bernstein
Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially… — Anatoly Chubais
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of… — Frank H. T. Rhodes
It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the… — Robert Mayer

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