Scholars Quotes

225 quotes by 199 authors

While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion,… — Grey Owl
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by… — Michel de Montaigne
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
Scholars today are under increasing pressure to publish. Consequences of this pressure are incentives to deviate from the truth — Bruno Frey
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
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
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
I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars. — Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
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
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
Past scholars studied to improve themselves; Today's scholars study to impress others. — Confucius

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