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Scholar Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness can require, will…
- To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
- There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.
- Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
- ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his…
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- Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand… — Felix Adler
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us… — Jean Baudrillard
- And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
- Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can… — Horace Mann
- A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its… — Thucydides